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ok so far iv have an epipohne les paul custom and i had a bigsby installed unfortunately it wasn't installed properly and now i am trying to fix it.

the original bushings are in the way of the screws so i have taken them out (they just pulled out very clean) and i have made a piece of round mahogany blank about 0.2mm bigger than the posts holes so it will fit in snugly.

what i am planning to do is cut pieces of the mahogany blank and glue them in with pvr yellow wood glue (stronger than pva) to ensure a solid fit, then i plan to paint over this with ebony black nail polish i have used to touch up a guitar before and jimmi Hendrix used it on a few of his guitars so it seem the way to go.

then im just going to straighten the bigsby out and install it as usual.

i just need to know if there is anything else i need to do.

out of curiosity, why did you buy an SG without a bigsby in the first place?

the shop i use to order in all my stuff cant get a hold of one with a bigsby in natural burst

iv orderd a gibson sg standard in natural burst and a bigsby (b50) and am wondering the distance to place it from the tune-o-matic bridge i have seen people place it at the verry base of the guitar but i allways thought that you are supposed to place a bigsby where the origional bridge was?

how far from the tune-o- matic bridge should i place it?