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My neighbor stopped by last night with an old guitar. It's a '50's Harmony flattop. Ladder braced, nylon strings, cheap piece of American industrialized guitar history. Was her fathers main axe. I told her I could make it playable but not pretty. Got her to agree that a refinish would remove all traces of her dad and that would be a shame.
So the plan is to pull the frets, flatten the fret board (.065" relief with no strings right now), install new frets, nut and saddle and reinstall the original pickgaurd which fortunately was inside the box.

So get to the point, Steve

A) How much relief should I leave in the neck. It's steel reinforced but not adjustable.

B) Does anyone have any of these tuners lying about? This has three bent shafts on one plate and a missing gear on the other.

Bit expensive for a cheapy but nostalga is a funny thing!

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Guit ... ghead.html

Ray

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I second the golden age tuners. You could even customize them to have the same footprint as the ones on your repair guitar.

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Hey, Steven, surely some repair guy has a decent used set of these in his archive. You should post a request on a forum where guitar builders and repairmen hang out.

Edit: Never mind.

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go on www.guitarfetish.com its pretty much all economy parts. You might find what your looking for.

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Thanks guys,

I got the bent shafts straightened. That was pretty easy once I saw how the assembly went together.
So now I'm down to needing 1 gear and 1 screw.
Hey Dave, any idea where one might find a forum like you mentioned?

Steve

Steve,
Send me a SASE and a note regarding what you need........these are old Waverly's and I have lots of parts for them.

PM me for my address.


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There ya go! If David doesn't have what you need, try this David.

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Excellent!

Thanks Daves.

Steven,

I didn't want to be caught off-guard, so I went to the shop and reached up for the box marked "old trash tuners, too rusty to keep" and found an empty space.

Unless the box was dumped into the bottom drawer marked "stuff to throw away" (full to the brim) I've thrown away all my old tuners.

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