So, I've decided to award myself saturday and sunday off this week

Partly because I'm worth it, but largely because I didn't glue any necks today. And if I glued them on saturday I would want to remove the clamps on sunday, which is a definite no-no.

But what I did do was get out the pillar drill and drill both headstocks to take the tuner bushings. Ruth's was pretty straightforward. But mine needed a little extra effort because one of the original holes was slightly out of place. So to tidy it up, I re-drilled two of the holes all of the way through at the larger diameter for the bushings. Then I improvised with the fret press to partially insert the bushings in those holes before locating the tuners and drilling the pilot holes to mount them.



And then I removed the temporarily fitted bushings without damaging the headstock veneer. So all should be OK when it comes to finishing the headstocks later.

And on monday I will be fitting necks. Then it's time to make some bridges, fit nuts and saddles, and then get started on final finishing. Almost there !!

Andy

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