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Permalink Reply by Ryan Rose on October 26, 2011 at 10:55am

Yep. Lowe's, Home Depot, Menard's, Ace.... Any hardware store should have them. What you're looking for are rivets. Just drill your string holes big enough, pop out that pin, and put it the rivet in the hole. That's just one method, though. (It's the one I use, and I highly recommend it, but it's not the only one.) I've seen other people that have put a fret right in front of the hole. Another popular method is to use a hinge as a tailpiece, with one side of the hinge attached to the guitar, and the strings running through the holes on the other side.

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Permalink Reply by Happy Tom on October 26, 2011 at 1:04pm

 

 Thank You.. what "size" do you use? I see 1/8 and also 1/4...

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on October 26, 2011 at 1:08pm

I use 1/8" mostly.

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Permalink Reply by Happy Tom on October 26, 2011 at 1:17pm

Thank You both for your help... I have to pick some up. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Rose on October 26, 2011 at 2:24pm

Our pleasure. I use 1/8" also, but I used to use a slightly larger size, because that's what was in the junk drawer when I started building. When I ran out, I picked up 1/8", because that's what I grabbed.

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