Just heard back from Adam. Happy to sell them to me, I just need to provide my kit number order :) This is why I love PBG!
Looking at the Grover mini romatics 205. Anyone know if these will fit the pre-drilled tuner holes in a TLA-1 kit?
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Just heard back from Adam. Happy to sell them to me, I just need to provide my kit number order :) This is why I love PBG!
Looking at the Grover mini romatics 205. Anyone know if these will fit the pre-drilled tuner holes in a TLA-1 kit?
good stuff Moo, that's why PBG are so good, their service is second to none !
I had a look on the diagram and the rotomatic tuner outer shaft is 9.7mm diameter and the tuner holes are about 9.5mm so may need a small ream with a 9.5mm drill but they will fit fine
Thanks Wokka! Haha you're really quick replying today :)
I appreciate your help, as always. Will place my order now
EDIT: May have also ordered a Wilkinson bridge... Oops haha :p
no worries Moo I'm a bit quiet at work so keeping a good eye on the forum today haha
G'day Moo. I've got the Tonerider Hot Classic in my Tele neck pup. Sounds great. A lovely singing tone that's great for blues. I used the Grover Mini Lockers too. So easy to fit and restring. HIGHLY recommend.
Hello everyone
Yes I know it's been almost a year, but I have finally had a chance to work on my guitar again. I finished off smoothing my last clear coat on the neck yesterday and it's feeling lovely.
When I first bought the kit, I followed the recommendations to drill my bridge holes and carefully measured everything. It wasn't until several months later that I bought a new Wilkinson compensated bridge and the holes don't line up. They're close though, which is worse.
What's the best way to go about filling the old holes so I can re-drill? I thought maybe using araldite might work?
Also, I bought a PBG bone nut but when I went to test fit it yesterday, it's several mm to wide for the slot and won't fit? I compared it to the original plastic one and it is definitely quite a bit wider. Do I just sand down the side?
As usual, I appreciate your help :)
Araldite will do the job, its handy stuff. Others may have a better recommendations, but I see no problems with doing that.
Fortunately any changes will be nicely hidden by the plate I have TL with a Wilkinson I'm hoping to start fairly soonish. Have you increased the bridge pickup route? They are a bit small and slightly too far south in the kits, esp if you are using an after market pickup.
In regards to the nut, I think being slightly too wide is common, I've had that with some TUSQ nuts I've bought, nothing wrong with filing it down, so long as the string spacing is all good and neither of the 'E" strings is too close to the edge of the neck.
Thanks for the reply. I've seen some people plug with a skewer/toothpick etc. so I'll hold to see if others have any recommendations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain
No I haven't enlarged the route - In the dry build it seemed to fit okay, but I haven't tried since getting the new bridge and re-measuring the scale length. I'll get onto that today.
At the moment I've just got stock pups, but I'm considering upgrading to some Toneriders. I hadn't realised they were larger?
Ah, just re-measured scale length and realised I hadn't accounted for the new bridge being a different length to the stock one.
It's a bit shorter, which means I have to move it forward. The holes no longer overlap, and the old ones are nicely covered by the plate. One less job to do!
And the pickups just fit in the original route, pushed up against the edge (so no re-routing, phew!)
I'll re-drill the bridge holes and get onto the last clear coat (or two, because I'll probably mess it up) and then finally onto assembly :)
It's only been a year and a bit haha...
Good news on the holes.
Yeah its a tight squeeze to get the kit pickup in there. If you have a look at my relliecaster link below, I did a fairly agricultural job of enlarging it. I wanted a bit more intonation adjustment and also to have the bridge plate fit neatly in the pick guard without too big a gap.