Drilled holes for the stoptail studs and tuner strip and installed these. Trimmed a blank nut to fit, and
strung it up for the first time! Sounds like a guitar! It needs some setup attention of course, but it's definitely playable as of now.
The 6-on-a-strip tuners I bought are replacements for Fender and they are ever so slightly further apart than the harder-to-find-inexpensively Gibson replacements. So sue me!
With my chunky fingers, the extra 1/32nd or so between each tuner is quite welcome and the string pull is almost perfectly straight the way it all lays out. A
very slight angle to the low E and even less to the A.
The headstock is quite a bit too thick as it is now: there is just a short stub of the tuning peg coming out the front. Going to have to thin down the veneer somewhat and also the back of the stock so I can have room for a thin backside veneer just to hide the seam. The measurement info I have found is that an ES-335 headstock is ⅝" thick; it'll take some doing to get down to that dimension without weakening the area behind the nut unduly - I may not go quite that thin after all is said and done.
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