My Classic Player 60's Stratocaster - Updated!

orvilleowner · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:33 pm

Ceri wrote:

Did you ever manage to get that broken off bit of whammy bar out of the block? What techniques did you try? And if not, can I have a go, please? Just for the interest of the methodology: I have no use for a spare block of this kind, but I'd like to see if my gadget works on a tip sunk that deep in the hole.

What gadget would that be? Please document that process.

Back a few decades, I broke off a trem bar (in an old Lefty Strat of mine). I don't remember a lot of replacement parts in the aftermarket back then, especially a lefty part. A local shop drilled it out and fixed it with a helicoil. I'm sure I still have the repair receipt -- I'll have to see what they charged me for that bit of magic.

Ceri · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:41 am

orvilleowner wrote:

What gadget would that be? Please document that process.

Hi Orville: if I get that block from Andy it would be my pleasure to show my success or failure in removing the offending piece. Nothing clever, I'm afraid, just a good quality engineer's screw extractor kit which I could run on my drill press. I've luckily never had a broken whammy so I've never done this particular job. It looks like that snapped piece is buried deep so I'm curious to see if it can be got out.

O.O. wrote:

I don't remember a lot of replacement parts in the aftermarket back then, especially a lefty part.

Ah-ha: knowing you to be a right-handed player I am immediately visualising a young guy with a Hendrix poster on his bedroom wall. Would that be right...?

Cheers - C

orvilleowner · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:45 pm

Ceri wrote:

Ah-ha: knowing you to be a right-handed player I am immediately visualising a young guy with a Hendrix poster on his bedroom wall. Would that be right ...?

Bien sur!

Why else would a right-handed guy buy a lefty Strat? Lots of our guitar heroes did the same thing: Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Perry, Steve Miller, Rick Nielsen ... the good old days. Of course that lefty Strat also turned out to be a pretty good investment (since it was a 1971 four-bolter).

Ceri · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:27 am

orvilleowner wrote:

Of course that lefty Strat also turned out to be a pretty good investment (since it was a 1971 four-bolter).

Hee-hee: from what I've seen you seem to have had a special talent for good guitar investments!

And the nice bit is that I expect investment was the last thing on your mind at the time. There's a worthwhile lesson in there, if we choose to find it.

Cheers - C

orvilleowner · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:33 pm

Ceri wrote:

And the nice bit is that I expect investment was the last thing on your mind at the time. There's a worthwhile lesson in there, if we choose to find it.

Right, investment was the last thing on my mind. Hence, my vintage pieces are players and far from 100% collectors grade.

Ceri · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:29 am

Your priorities are ideal.

cheers - C

bosskidblues · **Joined:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:44 pm **Posts:** 68

haha great post!

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