Holes.

[Dan.]

i feel stupid for asking this, but i bought a guitar body off of ebay a little while back to use as my summer project, but i fear that in my haste i made a grave mistake. the guitar has no holes for the strings ( im sure there is some facncy name for them). I believe that the guitar was some cheapo squire or some such thing that some one stripped to sell, so i must assume it had strings at some point. as i was vigorously sanding it and rubbing the gel from hell, that you may know as paint remover, on it, i thought madye id have to use an acoustic style bridge on it. and i havent seen one of those before on a strat (but i havent really looked). what i would really like is a generic strat style bridge (once more, the name eludes me) then id have to drill some holes. what id like to know is what kind of bridge id need to just screw on, what, if any, draw backs it might have, and how i might go about drilling holes in the right spots.

[low end fuzz]

holes?

do you mean holes in the guitar to put the strings through?

or the holes where the screws go?

or a tremolo hole?

if its just a strat, go back to ebay and get a hardtail bridge ;

then go thru the motions of putting it together

[Dan.]

ahhhh, hardtail bridge.

thanks.

[MiKro]

ahhhh, hardtail bridge.

thanks.

Here's one from Guitar Fetish that is top mount strings

LINK

MK

[ray]

many of the cheapo squires had bridge mount as opposed to string through

if you feel adventurous why not have a go at putting the holes and ferrules in yourself

it requires a bench drill, 1/8 bit and a standard strat string through hard tail bridge

also you might wanna do a bit of research on getting ur holes perfectlcty straight so the are evnely spaced on the back as well as the front

1/8" drill bits can wander a little through a 2" thickness

ogten the holes on the back are a bit out of wack

screw the bridge down and puch the holes through the holes in the bridge about 1/4" is enough so you can flip the body to drill them from the back. you need to mount a 1/8" steel about 1/2" long pin driectly under ur bit and push the body onto the pin on each of the 6 holes you done on the front...that way ur holes on the back layout perfect

btw a hardtail strat sounds really great with stringthrough hasrdtail IMHO better than the standard trem bridge

[MiKro]

btw a hardtail strat sounds really great with stringthrough hasrdtail IMHO better than the standard trem bridge

I like hardtails. I own one.

LOL

Edited July 12, 2007 by MiKro

[Dan.]

if you feel adventurous...

i most certianly do not. that never pans out for me. then, when i do mess up, my self esteem goes down and i am mentally unable to work on it agian.

[ihocky2]

The topic of adding string through holes was just gone over about a week ago in this topic area. If you go back a few pages you'll see some info about it. Also do a search and read through the tutorials section. There is a lot of good info on there that helps a ton and you may feel more confident about it in the end.