"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
I took the general advice and skipped the war on oil. I did some more fine sanding and rubbing and the finish is looking more than acceptable.
I was hoping to get a local guitar shop to set the truss rod level the frets but they weren't interested. So I got a aluminum yard stick from the hardware store and notched it out to accept the fret wires to level the fret board. then I used 11" sanding bar I had to level the frets. That all seems to have gone very well.
I then installed the tuners and that went ok but they aren't perfect. One of the tuner bases just overlaps the edge of the headstock and the E and A tuners are little higher up than the D and G tuners.
I then set up the E and G strings to make sure every thing was straight before gluing in the neck.
Hmmm. I know that checking this is usually one of the first steps but the tuner sockets didn't fit in the headstock and at that point I was leery of doing anything permanent to the guitar. This was a mistake.
The obvious solution would be to fill the existing holes with epoxy and wood flour and drill new holes. However, the bridge on the eb-0 is pretty fiddly so I was thinking replacing it entirely. Are all bass bridges the same width or do short scale bridges have a different width?
Currently the E string is inset about 3/16" and the G string is closer to 7/16". Centering the stock bridge would have the strings inset about a 1/4" at the last fret. Does this seem extreme?
thanks,
Hugh
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