Waddo Soqable

I've had at different times a couple of Kramers with Ali necks and "ebonol" boards, one was a bit chipped here and there, one of the reasons I told myself I should get rid of them was I felt ( rightly or probably wrongly ) that the ebonol would be very dodgy to repair or re-fret.

Well some quick pics, the camera on this thing isn't great, I've just laid a scratchplate in place for completeness, it's not screwed down. I'll use a black one probably rather than the silver check plate thing. (a single ply matt black would be nice in fact) I'll also include a pic with the maple "cheapo sub" neck experimentally attached, purely out of interest. The maple of the original neck is certainly not substandard or anything so I assume it was pot luck and they randomly took a bunch of necks from the general production line?? You can't see in the pics but there's some slight staining from the black in the grain, but I'll likely do it in tinted nitro or whatever so it'll look fine I'd think. It's just bare stripped wood at the moment. Acetone easily dissolves the paint they use on these necks btw.

I'd rather have it without all the stoopid stuff stuck on it too.. all that would in fact knock money off in my view...

Indeed.. I borrowed one for a bit when I were a lad and it was perfectly adequate, prob did a few gigs with it. I'd have one now for £50 or maybe 75 quid at a push, but a Grand 😧

Apparently you can "identify" as an animal too now, they're "furries" I believe I can't decide if I'm going to be a dog or a little cat tho... 🤔

Then you need to develop the technique to fully justify a po$h number plate...

Still, it's all relative I suppose..

The Monkees? Boris Karloff?

Not bent though...

Someone let all those chimps at the typewriter, again

Hoots Mon, Lord Rockingham's 11

Great fun @Gasman 👍 I confess I was a teenage sax player for a bit too..

I would but it usually says "No Fires" on skips... 😁

The one I've got has the neck completely stripped (the orig paint was damaged) to bare wood.. certainly doesn't look like "ugly" wood to me, so I may just nitro it, not sure. I've also been messing with a maple neck on it from an indo Sub, which has a Jazz style skinny nut.

You are John Major & I claim my £5 😁

Ooh, isn't the end one on the plss a bit ?.... (only pulling your leg, looks v. good 👍)

Night in Tunisia, C. Parker D. Gillespie

Nice tuners indeed 👍 Given their size they look easy enough to line up, I'd be using a square to get the flat front / back edges of the backing plates at 90 degs to the flat plane on top of the HS, but they're almost touching each other with a small gap so prob OK to eyeball it at a push. If there's any existing screw pilot hole visible thru the new tuner plates holes, you run the risk of the screw taking a run for the old hole and going wonky. You're naturally going to drill new pilot holes for the screws I assume.

Just listening to some now, ooh.. I like Entwistle's sound meself !

Well I've used a straight edge, ruler, or right angle engineers square on occasions, to set them straight.. The top edge of the HS you can use as a datum and assuming there's 90° edge on each tuner base plate you can set them using the right angle or T square against that.. They're then aligned to the top of the HS If the above makes sense?

Well tbh I've in the past just plugged any redundant holes with cocktail sticks and wood glue, then trimmed flush when dry. I guess if the holes are way off where you need the new ones it doesn't matter tho..

Those bushings can be a bastard, they're either too tight or too loose. In the case of tight ones it can feel a bit iffy bashing them in regardless in case you start a split in the HS !

Oh, Seaman Staines...

A Snail I believe