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I'd think that if you genuinely don't really care about what your guitar looks like you'd be in a very small minority.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Firstly something I hadn't thought about - the wee guide notch that makes installing Fender tuners as easy as playing Lego but when the hole for it isn't there it's a pest.
So firstly I put the two strings on through the tuners and the nut to measure up where to put the tree, drilled the hole for the screw, screwed it in with masking tape over the headstock, then drilled a hole where the notch indented. Trouble with that is it stopped the string tree being rotated a degree or two in order to line it up with the strings.
So I filed off the notch - that is definitely the way to go for anyone reading this in the future!
But when I screwed it in, the strings didn't line up perfectly. We're only talking a mm or two out but enough to stop it being straight.
So I drilled another hole for the screw up a bit and, unfortunately, went too high by a mm or two!
So I drilled a hole in the middle (and slightly more towards the nut so as not to be too close to the other two holes), at this point having 4 holes in the headstock and feeling a bit gutted that I'll be left with these holes from day one on my new expensive neck.
Had no choice but to continue and screw the string tree back in and this time it lined up perfectly. To my surprise and delight, the tree actually completely covers 3 of the holes and the 4th is directly under the actual tree part making it only visible from the top down, not from looking frontwards at the guitar. It's as if the guitar god (Leo Fender) was blessing me for perseverance and gave me the miracle at the end lol.
I'm very grateful for all the input and took all the advice on board when doing it. But if I could go back I think I'd have taken the financial bullet and paid a professional to do it. It's not even that I rate my techy skills in any way, it just seemed like such a simple task - which it is, but had zero room for error and had to be precise.
But it's done now. My final question to you guys - should I bother filling the final remaining hole with wood filler or just leave it?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'm sure the Mrs will have some clear nail varnish too.
I would poke it into the holes with a pin or something, to make sure it goes down a long way which will tend to stop it just falling out again.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein