Muzza's second build. A 'proper' PBG PRS-1Q

[wokkaboy]

Hey Muzza, glad the outcome is good. You could pop the headstock grain with a watered down dye, but depends on the thickness of the veneer whether you have enough meat to sand it back.
Your PRS neck must have had the frets slotted after a liquid lunch !

[Muzza]

Same bloke that drilled the machine head holes on my other PRS kit.

But it's from a different factory - probably his cousin.

...and I'm never going to try to pop the grain ever again. Too much angst and hard work.

[wokkaboy]

Muzza popping the grain is under rated in my opinion. I don't do any pre-sanding, whack the black stain on out of the box.
Touch wood (or thin veneer) I've never sanded through a veneer.

[gavinturner]

Remember that before trying to sand the black dye out of the grain, you can pull a lot of it back ut with a clean wet rag. I'm with Wokka in that *if* I'm gonna pop the grain I never pre-sand the veneer. I use the post pop sanding to do that for me.

cheers,
Gav.

[Muzza]

I bought a Gotoh Tunomatic bridge, but it's different to what I'm used to installing. It doesn't have a threaded 'bush' that inserts into the guitar body.

I got this.



But I was expecting something more like this...



Those 2 'bushes' in the centre of the bottom photo are missing. But all the photos I've found on the 'net showing this style of tunomatic bridge don't show anything extra.

[tonyw]

PBG may have some in their 18kg parts bin, send em an email

I had to source a set from the U.S.A for a bloke, same situation, from memory they were $15+ postage from me to him, but i dont have any unless i ordered them, not something i usually keep hanging around.

[Muzza]

They're different to the kit bridges. Much thinner posts.

Apparently it's a 'Kalamazoo' style tune-o-matic.

[tonyw]

Yeah the Gotoh one requires you to use the original threaded rod posts, its an upgrade to the original ABR-1 bridge.

Let me see what i can find out...

[Muzza]

Seems I just need to drill and tap directly into the guitar body. No insert bushes required...

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/luth...tallation.html

It's just as well that my PRS-1Q kit doesn't have predrilled bridge holes.

[wokkaboy]

wow I've never seen that type bridge Muzza that doesn't have a bush.
I don't like the idea of drilling the thin thread into the basswood (I presume).
How is the height of the bridge adjusted by screwing the round piece below the bridge ?

The bridge won't have much tension on it but the tailpiece will definitely need a bush drilled into the body to hold the string tension.