'56 Goldtop with Vibramate and B7

[BillyGibson]

 

Pretty easy install. It lifts it up higher than I anticipated. Yet, keeps the roller bar back where

the tail piece sat, so the string angle isn't too sharp. After the strings stretched and positioned

themselves, it tunes and plays fine.

[Sjael]

Looks good man, love a Les Paul with a Bigsby :)

 

May I ask what's going on at your bridge posts? Those things look awesome.

[BillyGibson]

Thanks Sjael - I noticed last year the bushings didn't sit all the way down, so I tapped them in a little more. Well, I hit the treble side too much and got a 1/4"

line/crack in the poly finish. Even though it wasn't too big, it bugged my. I started thinking about ways to fix it. However, you can't realy fix

poly. Then I was in Home Depot one morning walking down the nut and bolt aisle and saw these little mirror rossettes in the specialty drawers.

I told the sales person what I was doing and he helped me out by getting a uni-bit (not a regular drill bit) and bored a hole a little bigger than the

diameter of the M8 bolt in the rosettes. I had to buy the bit, because he opened it to do the job ($17). He duct taped them to a 2x4 to hold them still.

There's a tiny hole in the middle already, so he had a pilot hole to get started. The uni-bit just enlarged it. Where as, a regular drill bit would have

shredded the rosette. I wouldn't have known that, so I'm glad he was there to help.

 

Then I brought the rosettes home and ground down the insides with my dremmel to make them flat underneath - not too much though, because it's

delicate metal. Then I put some super glue on them and positioned them on the bushings. The studs go through them perfectly and the height is still

100% adjustible, so you can still have low action.

 

Total cost to fix my mistake was less than $20 and who would have thought that Home Depot could do luthier work. The rosettes come in gold too. I was

actually thinking about doing this to my Dot Deluxe before I traded it.

[Sjael]

That's ingenious, and looks damn cool to boot, has a kinda industrial/mechanical thing going on. I'm gonna have to do something similar to my Explorer now. Thanks for posting this :)

[Strumbone]

Thanks Sjael - I noticed last year the bushings didn't sit all the way down' date=' so I tapped them in a little more. Well, I hit the treble side too much and got a 1/4"

line/crack in the poly finish. Even though it wasn't too big, it bugged my. I started thinking about ways to fix it. However, you can't realy fix

poly. Then I was in Home Depot one morning walking down the nut and bolt aisle and saw these little mirror rossettes in the specialty drawers.

I told the sales person what I was doing and he helped me out by getting a uni-bit (not a regular drill bit) and bored a hole a little bigger than the

diameter of the M8 bolt in the rosettes. I had to buy the bit, because he opened it to do the job ($17). He duct taped them to a 2x4 to hold them still.

There's a tiny hole in the middle already, so he had a pilot hole to get started. The uni-bit just enlarged it. Where as, a regular drill bit would have

shredded the rosette. I wouldn't have known that, so I'm glad he was there to help.

 

Then I brought the rosettes home and ground down the insides with my dremmel to make them flat underneath - not too much though, because it's

delicate metal. Then I put some super glue on them and positioned them on the bushings. The studs go through them perfectly and the height is still

100% adjustible, so you can still have low action.

 

Total cost to fix my mistake was less than $20 and who would have thought that Home Depot could do luthier work. The rosettes come in gold too. I was

actually thinking about doing this to my Dot Deluxe before I traded it.

 

 

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See, there you go Bill, you had to ruin it by admitting to the little faux pas which caused the rosette install! Next time, leave off the honesty/humility part, and just brag about how cool and artistic you thought it would look!