Re: Want to buy: Westone Spectrum locking nut

[corsair]

Woo hoo - action a-plenty!! G'day DJ - it doesn't matter if the alloy is marked as long as it holds, I would have thought; the only original shim I've got from 3 Deluxe bridges is marked as well and that still holds!! Why could you not re-drill the steel ones? I've just had to do re-drill one for an experiment I'm making and it went fine; I used a slow speed on the mill and had a poop-load of cutting oil flowing and no dramas....

[Steve777]

Hi DJ and welcome,

Read your tale of woe with regard to the locking and and had the same problem on my Dimension 4, one of the bolts pulling the threads out of the locking nut base plate. It was on the E/A string side.

At first, I couldnt understand why all the bolts were the same length when clearly all the strings were of different thicknesses. Taking the base plate, shims and lock plates off the guitar, I realised that all the bolts only caught the first two or three threads in the base plate and turning it over revealed that there was at least 2-3mm further to go if I so wished.

I simply bought longer M4 bolts, I think 14mm which picked up the remainder of thread without going into the neck.

Hope this helps. If you are recycling any old Westone PUPs / trems or knobs, let me know.

All the best

Steve

[catonine]

ok.. what did ya do with the bendmaster ft that came on it.. i want that.. lol.. i need a string end holder thing that holds the string ball in place.. you can keep the rest.. ha.. or if anyone knows where i can find one single little string holder please send it my way !!!

[corsair]

Heya, Scott - what do these look like? I've never seen an FT bridge in the flesh and am wondering if thy're like the Deluxe ones?