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The finished bridge.

Saddles were cut from more copier shaft. Drilling and tapping the holes for the height adjusting screws was the most tedious part of this whole project. Six 4-40's. And I was thrilled I didn't break the tap! But I did break about 5 bits. These are the springs. Ball point pen springs were not...

I used a Dremel tool to smooth the inside of the pickup cutout. It jumped out and scored the surface several times. I was too lazy to get all the scratches out. C'est la vie.

Drilled and cut.

I downloaded a pic from the Stewmac site (along with dimensions) and made a template. I'd cut the bridge too long, so I shortened it.

Shaped and sanded (yes, that belt sander was a lifesaver for this project. :))

On to the bridge. I hacked an appropriate piece out of a steel plate from the copier.

Sorry, you're going to have to wait till the end. :) Here's a pic of the finished guitar, in case you missed it: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=3394589&postcount=2

In the finished guitar.

From the bottom.

I thought I would need some fine tuners. I drilled a hole just under the head of a machine screw for the string to go through. When the nut is tightened, it puls the string down, increasing the tension. It turns out they were unnecessary, but they also work as string trees.

The bottoms are squared and tapered so they can be turned with a wrench.

Installed in the headstock.

I made the pins out of a copier roller shaft, before drilling and smoothing, and squaring the ends.

Reinforcements all around.

The tuners. Since I can't make gears, I had to do with tuning pins (metal tuning pegs.) I was afraid the headstock would split from the pressure, so I reinforced it with pegs made from skewers (bamboo I think), and an extra piece of wood on the back to increase the bearing surface.

It was a Konica.

Here's a shot at the 3rd fret of the finished guitar.

It's a pore in the grain. The wood, which I was told was lyptus (a hybrid eucalyptus grown in Brazil), although dense, hard and heavy, has these large pores running through it, maybe because it is very fast growing. Here is a shot of the end grain. There is a large pore on the surface in the...