| Q: What are the preferred materials used as fillers when replacing the
tuning machines? (Joe Pitman: August 1999)
A: I presume you're referring to
filling the old screw holes, Joe. I drill the old holes larger with
a #44 or #45 bit, then fill this hole with a piece of round toothpick.
Clip the point off the toothpick, insert it with TiteBond, clip off the
excess toothpick and razor off the remainder so it is level with the
surface of the headstock tuner plate face. You can then drill new holes to
fit the new tuners; overlapping the hole into the toothpick fill works
just fine if the hole locations for the new tuners require this. |
