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Comment by Southern Ray on December 8, 2020 at 3:18pm

 Merry Christmas! (Grinning!) Cool.

Comment by Paul Craig on December 8, 2020 at 8:55am

I bought a set of each at Harbor Freight for cheap. Half the Brad bits were bent and useless. The forstner bits were straight, but the tips wore down fast. Went to Lowe's while they had a Christmas sale and bought my presents of Dewalt bits.

Comment by Southern Ray on December 8, 2020 at 7:44am

 Ah, yes. What I would like to have... Alas, just simply too rich for me, at least right now. 

Comment by Paul Craig on December 7, 2020 at 8:59am

I switched all my drill bits over to brad bits and Forstner bits for wood working and that helped a lot for drilling by hand.

Comment by Southern Ray on December 5, 2020 at 10:33pm

 Thanks again, Paul. I don't have a drill press and it was a small block, so I eye-balled it and got lucky. It came out square on the first pilot hole. From there it was pretty easy. 

Comment by Paul Craig on November 27, 2020 at 11:35am

That's a smart way of doing it.

Comment by Southern Ray on November 26, 2020 at 5:49am

Thank you, Paul. Love the look of mahogany. That's a toilet lag-down bolt, I drilled a hole through a small block of mahogany. Hole size was about .200. The bolt is .250 so I screwed it throught the hole and trimmed the excess with a razor knife and files. It's not quite finished. It will have to be adjusted on height from the bottom.

Comment by Paul Craig on November 25, 2020 at 9:39pm

That bridge looks great.

Comment by Southern Ray on November 25, 2020 at 2:19pm

 Thanks for the tips there, Paul! I too used bolts, in my case, nearly all builds until about number 11 or so and I used a hardwood nut. Loved it. Used an old gas stove jet cleaning kit to cut the string grooves. Just matched the diameters of the little files with the diameters of the strings. Worked quite well. I liked it so well, I replaced bolts on at least two other of my previous builds. Looking forward t trying this build with a zero-fret. Thinking about putting this bridge/saddle unit on this build after finishing it up...

Comment by Paul Craig on November 24, 2020 at 10:20am

I've used bolts as a nut on almost all of my CBG's. I bought a assortment of small files at Harbor Freight for a few bucks and there's a half round file that's just right for filing a bolt slot for the nut. Just have to figure in the center of the bolt for your placement and scale length measurement.

If the bolt is off a bit, file a new dip slot and fill in the old one with glue and sawdust or shape a block ramp to fit in front of the bolt out of a piece of scrap.

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