But that's not wood working 101!!! LOL
What if they x ray that years from now and see what you did, the engineers might have a hissy fit.

Best get a nice piece of alder and whittle it down to a 1.5mmR cylinder. Strip the finish off the guitar, insert the cylinder, refinish the guitar with paint from the exact same batch as your original colour.

Gotta keep them future historians/archeologists happy. Suppose some 25th century Buck Rodgers/Indiana Jones crossover invents a time machine, comes back in time, just to have it out with you for putting glue and sawdust or a toothpick in your guitars screw hole. Starts attacking you with a laser whip whilst that infernaly annoying bloody robot says beedeee beedeee in the background.


My god its a terrible prospect. The amount of guitars I've toothpicked, matchsticked, and sawdust glued over the years. Last week I did the repair to my 50 year old watkins amp. Two of the screws on the back of the cab had stripped. Whats going to happen to me for that? Perhaps this utterly useless character

Cyborged into robocops shell will come and get me.

To make matters worse time travel would be involved so they could land anytime. I could be walking around asda doing the shopping, having a cup of tea with my dear old mum.

What am I going to do?

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There's no problem purchasing hardwood dowels even in alder or ash. I highly doubt the availability of said particular species of wooden dowels at your garden variety hardware store but there are examples available at specialty suppliers. If you have a guitar with a hole that is seriously FUBAR, like so bad a #8 - 3" long wood screw can't find anything to hold on to, then the dowel method begins to make sense. There's nothing inherently wrong with the know-it-all's woodworking 101 method WHEN it is warranted.

Which is about 0.001% of the time

** - This post is all IMO of course, can't let the wood perfesser see me using a percentage point without the obligatory "IMO".

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

BMW I wasnt having a pop at you in particular mate, please dont think I was. If you feel inconvinienced by anything I've put in that post, I apologise, it wasnt my intention. I was just trying to incite a bit of humour in a thread that could quickly go nasty, with some inanity.

Everyone knows theres a right, by the book method for most things. Sometimes its a little longwinded for laymen.

Here's my 50th anni dowelled with pine.

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No no and no

I was not offended. I have pretty thick skin but I didn't need thick skin for your post because you said nothing offensive. I was merely pointing out alder dowels are available.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

True enough, but its Woodworking 102.

Oh my, I can't think that far ahead. No way, José. I'm still smarting from the spanking I got for failing woodworking 101.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Supro , you know the woodworking 101 police have me on camera when I was 18 and eventually they will catch up to me and make me pay for taking a shortcut.