I will drop you a little secret tip of mine about stuck Iron things, (rusted) threads, rods, nuts and bolts. I worked in the commercial restarant appliance repair business for many years and had to make things happen with repairs fast and sometimes using what was found handy in the kitchen. A potato...

Glad there is still interest in these guitars and glad you folks make use of the work everyone puts into keeping these working. Remenber everyone, dirt and salt from your own playing needs to be cleaned out of the string saddles to keep things working well. Water, toothbrush and a can of compressed ...

Just signed in. Great site.
I get a lot of calls from my website asking for help keeping these guitars working. I hope it is ok for me to refer your site towards their interests in my replies to them. I'm getting old. Tx