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Finished Pics. Back to the dark side - Trini deluxe tribute with added ebony


Andyjr1515

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1 hour ago, Len_derby said:

Hold my beer…..😹

 

Jokes aside, it’s all about making the commissioning client happy. 
I’m still over the moon every time I take my Swift Lite out.

Not a great photo, from last night.

 

 

 

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And that, of course, was also a special one xD

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There's still stuff to do, but visually this is pretty much there so I'll do the 'finished shots'

Photographing this, with or without total cloud cover, is...er...challenging.  Anyway, here's a few arty ones:

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And two or three in the great outdoors:

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23 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

Beautiful!

 

Those machine heads give the headstock a very clean look.  I hadn't noticed previously how that style of tuning peg is independent of the headstock edge.  Can we have some close-ups please?

Thanks :)

 

They are Steinbergers and were designed as a replacement for the banjo tuners that were fitted to the original Gibson Firebirds, etc..  They are - even though at one point they were fitted as standard to the low cost Epiphone versions of the Firebird - the best guitar tuners I've ever used.  Exceptionally easy to restring, fully locking and really nice and controllable tuning.  They went off the accessories market for a while but are now available again through Stewmac (although like hen's teeth in Covid times).

 

This was a set that I fitted to our band's bassist's genuine 1964 fake Firebird:

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The top T shape is actually the string clamp and the tuning knobs actually raise and lower the cylinder it sits on into and out of the tuner body.  To string up, you:

- turn the tuner until the cylinder is fully extended. The exposes the string hole drilled through the cylinder.

- attach the ball end of the string to the tailstock and thread the string though the hole

- pull it tight

- clamp it

- turn the tuning knob to draw the cylinder/clamp unit into the tuner body

- this tautens the string up to pitch

 

A complete re-think of a tuner  :)

 

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