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08-08-2007, 07:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | drilling to make tuners fit
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i have some tuners that i like and want to keep. but unfortunately they don't fit my neck! is it possible to fill those old holes with something and then redrill new ones so they can? |
08-08-2007, 08:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | I take it the holes are too large?
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08-08-2007, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | the holes don't match up with the tuners, i'm just wondering if i would be able to make new ones |
08-08-2007, 10:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | | You may be able to get some bushings.
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08-08-2007, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | how would the bushings help? |
08-08-2007, 10:49 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | I bought some tuners that where too small for the original holes. I didn't realize that tuners came in different sizes.
So I filled the holes with dowels and drilled new ones. The drill press was really cheap, one of those ones that holds a normal drill, and the bits moved around so none of the holes are exactly center. But it worked for years! Here is a sample picture: 
More pictures of the bass here. |
08-08-2007, 11:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | i think i've been misleading people here...when i meant that the holes didn't fit, i meant the screw holes in the back...
sorry for the confusion and troubles... |
08-08-2007, 11:13 PM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Oh, no problem. Just use a drill bit slightly smaller than the screw to start the holes. Don't drill all the way through 
If the old screw holes show, I wouldn't even worry about it. Who looks at the back of the headstock anyway?
But you could fill them with wood putty or the wood sticks (can't remember what they are called). Just get something that is a close match. |
08-08-2007, 11:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | sweet. thanks! |
08-08-2007, 11:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: WI | | | Just fill the holes with wood putty, I had the same problem years ago. Just make SURE you do not drill through the head stock as was said before. A good idea would be to measure the thickness of your head stock, then wrap a piece of tape around your drill bit at least a quarter inch short of that measurement.
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08-09-2007, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Jonny B Just fill the holes with wood putty, | Or tooth picks and white glue. |
08-09-2007, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | | Just leave the holes. You may want to put the others back on.
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08-09-2007, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Enchanter_Tim Just leave the holes. You may want to put the others back on. | If you fill 'em you can still put the screws back in. A lot of time you want to snap a round toothpick off into a hole you're putting a screw back into anyway so you get max grip from a used hole. This is very common to have to do with pick guard holes. |
08-09-2007, 09:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffbonny If you fill 'em you can still put the screws back in. A lot of time you want to snap a round toothpick off into a hole you're putting a screw back into anyway so you get max grip from a used hole. This is very common to have to do with pick guard holes. |
Fill them then.
I think a hole looks a lot better than what used to be a hole filled with a toothpick and glue, but whatever. If one ever wanted to re-install the stock tuners, one would have to re-drill.
But honestly, enough time wasted on this thread, no? It really doesn't matter. 
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08-09-2007, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Enchanter_Tim If one ever wanted to re-install the stock tuners, one would have to re-drill. | No redrilling required....white glue and toothpicks are very soft and make an old hole work better. Just force the screw in and it naturally finds the original hole in the hardwood and chews up the softwood toothpick. If you used maple dowel or epoxy to fill then yes, you'd have to re-drill. The toothpick thing is something I've done many, many times and it's a stock luthier trick to make a worn hole work again WITHOUT re-drilling. There, you learned something. Quote:
But honestly, enough time wasted on this thread, no? It really doesn't matter.
| Now THAT we agree on. |
08-09-2007, 11:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | no worries, i just left the holes alone and redrilled new ones next to them, so this thread should be done and over with.
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