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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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1966 Gretsch Country Gentleman binding replacement.

Good afternoon all. I have started the process of removing all the binding from the old Country Gentleman and it's going well. I did discover after removing the strings that the neck is pretty loose and moves around quite a bit (no surprises there). I removed the black plug on the back side of the body then removed the large regular (slot) screw that holds the neck in place. I thought the neck would just slide out considering how loose…

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Got it! I just had to sweet talk it a bit.