I haven't been making much progress on my projects lately, including the refinish of this bass. I did decide to lighten the headstock by replacing the Chinese steel tuners with Hipshot Ultralights. I could only get them a la carte. As luck and the supply chain would have it, I got the treble side from one seller and the bass side from another. Decided to take a page from JimC and see if I could get the whole thing a bit narrower as well as lighter.
I had a case for another ES style project. Identical body specs but with a Fender-style headstock. It took some doing to find a case for the one with the Fender headstock. Unfortunately the Gibson-style headstock with the wide clover tuners would not fit. Fortunately, the Hipshot Y tuners are both lighter and narrow enough to fit, just barely.
OK, will go back to procrastinating on the sanding now...
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