Just an FYI: I ended up cutting a small wooden block to sit inside the body down at the end, and drilled a small hole through the centre, where the end pin would screw into it.
Then I removed the neck pickup, fished a guitar string up from the end of the body, strung it through the hole in the block, and tied it off.
I buttered the inside of the area around the hole where the end pin had punched through, used the guitar string to pull the block down into position at the base of the body, and then tied the string off to hold it while the glue dried.
Once it set up, I cut a short slice of dowel to fill the remainder of the hole that was left, glued it in, stained and lacquered it to match the surrounding area, and then used a gold-plated football-style jack plate as a surround for the end pin. It looked like it belonged there, and completely hid the repair.
The finished repair was stronger than most semi hollows are in that area, and the end result was a very desirable instrument, for not a lot of money.
Ironically, I found that I didn’t have a lot of use for it. I sold it on, to help cover the cost of my electric upright.
Then I removed the neck pickup, fished a guitar string up from the end of the body, strung it through the hole in the block, and tied it off.
I buttered the inside of the area around the hole where the end pin had punched through, used the guitar string to pull the block down into position at the base of the body, and then tied the string off to hold it while the glue dried.
Once it set up, I cut a short slice of dowel to fill the remainder of the hole that was left, glued it in, stained and lacquered it to match the surrounding area, and then used a gold-plated football-style jack plate as a surround for the end pin. It looked like it belonged there, and completely hid the repair.
The finished repair was stronger than most semi hollows are in that area, and the end result was a very desirable instrument, for not a lot of money.
Ironically, I found that I didn’t have a lot of use for it. I sold it on, to help cover the cost of my electric upright.
