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Fender Jaguar Kurt Cobain edition Weight reduction

I’ve got a client requesting a weight reduction on his Kurt Cobain Jaguar My approach would be in 3 steps see how much I can route down the existing cavities (might not be a lot of weight loss) route under the pickguard without compromising the instruments integrity if additional weight loss is required, drill into the body with airline drill bits to gain a few more grams current total weight all including 4.2kg Any advice is welcomed 🙏🙏🙏

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Sounds good. If it works for you we can meet up in a Loothalong breakout room and work through it together. This might be a fun demo to do in the 3d club think tank if all works as intended. Jamie
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Telephone Tag Legends

I had lunch with a friend and client this week and we got on the topic of 'who did what and where' in the area, in terms of guitar repair. They brought up something that really felt like an object lesson in how rumors are propagated by people that don't understand the work that we do and I felt compelled to share. This was repeated person to person and originated from the shop it happened at: a certain someone at a certain music store…

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Ian Davlin
Ive done some crazy repairs on some expensive guitars and I've never installed a strap button with any amount of confidence.