--- Arle Lommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Seth, > > I'm not sure why drilling out that hole would impact a wah-wah sound. > > It is instead drilled out to allow the shaft to > pass through it, not to support the shaft. ...your ideal system would contact the body only at > the head and tail bearings. > > Maybe someone else can think of a reason for the wah-wah, but my only > > guess would be that the shaft wasn't *perfectly* straight and that > the loading pressure of those drones was causing an intermittent rub > > between the shaft and the brace that was manifest as sound like that. > > But that's only a guess.
Good guess. I use 5/16 all-thread a lot for clamping etc. Drilling a 5/16 hole in a piece of wood, Driving the all-thread thru and turning it will give you a pretty good approximation of "wah wah". I use a 7/8 hole in that brace mostly to pass a 3/4 stop-collar thru. Apologies to all of you people that live in pagan metric countries but I don't have my handy-dandy metric-conversion dial calipers with me. Anyway, it just slips right thru, no hunting around in the dark. As the bridge is sitting on that brace I imagine you don't want THAT much support. And I can hear Troy Aikman say "lighter, but stronger" when he's trying to sell you them bricks with the holes in them. Later Roy
