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Post subject: How do I fill the hole???
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:12 am
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I am thinking about replacing my stock tuners on my Strat with a set of Sperzel locking tuners with graduated post heights. After I do the swap, I will remove the string trees, as they are a friction point in tremelo guitars.
My question is, what do you do about the two holes left in the face of the peghead? They don't look so good. I am not the type of guy who wants to "relic" my gear. I like my stuff to look good, and like new as long as possible. I know it seems trivial, but hey, I love my guitar!!
Any thoughts???


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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:24 am
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May not be the best suggestion but this might be a project for you local hardware store. I had a hole in a beaded board wall in my home recently took a sample to my local harware store they found a wood putty that matched and it and it looks good as new. With the holes as small as they are this maybe an option if no one else has any better but I do hope you get more feed back on this. Good Luck


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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:28 pm
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Hello Paisley Strat,

The putty is a good way to go.

Also you may try a tiny dowel
and trim it off flush.

More work, same end result.

Cheers.


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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:40 pm
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Why not just leave the string tree on?

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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:00 am
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I'm going to respectfully disagree with those advising filler putty, at least if you mind about the repair showing. No matter how careful you are, you will never get a filler to exactly match the wood around it, and you'll have a little dot showing on the front of your peghead for ever more.

A tiny piece of matching wood, selected for grain, is the luthier-recommended method. And not dowel or the dreaded toothpick: that would present a circle of end-grain in the middle of the maple side-grain of the neck. Small sections of maple are available at StewMac for using for repairs.

Here is a link to one of Dan Erlewine's newsletters showing how to do the job, in this case, on the back of a mahogany headstock.

http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/ts0 ... clk=108571

Mind you, if you can pull off a job half as good as Dan’s, then you are seriously skilled and need to think about a career in guitar building!

Before you start, though, just consider whether you are ever likely to sell the guitar. If so, the buyer may pay more if it is "stock", so you may do better to just stick a very small, short screw(s) into the hole(s), to cover cosmetically, so that the string-tree can be reinstalled later if required. Just a thought.

I highly recommend the staggered Sperzels, by the way. My "bitso-caster" with Sperzels often doesn't need tuning for weeks at a time...


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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:30 pm
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Sounds too complicated to me. I'd just leave the trees on.


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