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Old 03-31-2008, 01:49 PM
Alberta Luthier Alberta Luthier is offline
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Location: High River, Alberta,Canada
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drill bits

I used the largest drill bit that would fit without carving up anything it ain't supposed to (19/64s) by hand on the ones I could get it in. But as you work your way back there is less room and on #5 no room for a 4-5" long drill bit. I considered cutting a bit shorter but immediately realized that I would end up dropping it in, and was not going to run that risk! So I dug around in my junk metal pail found a rod that was over 1/4 " and under 5/16ths, cut it to about 5", cut some little flutes with the dremil, heated it, bent it in the middle so it was l shaped. It isn't pretty, but it worked perfectly, and because of the bent part I was able to rotate it and still not drop it in.
Someone else here on another thread took an old GPlug and just hammered the end flat so it was a bit wider/longer and threaded it in and out. If I had had a bad GPlug handy I would have done that.
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