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Top Views From Bass Bout angle.
And a side page:

Backside Views.

Top Treble Bout Angles and Neck Views.

BLANK.

Disassembled and Layout Preparation Views.

Pickups / Electronics Harness Views.

Pickup and Rocker Switch Internal Details.

Schematic and circuit logic.
And a side page:

More views of electronics, Neck, Headstock and Truss Rod access.

Truss rod access screw hole repair.

Preliminary Assembly 1.

Preliminary Assembly 2.

Neck Joint screw holes refurbish.

Neck pocket gauged and planed.

Taping, masking and touch-up painting inside of cutaway horns.

Noteworthy work in reassembly & set-up.

Guitar Finished

Packing inner carton

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Kawai / Teisco
4 "nuclear" Teisco pickups; 6 Rocker Switches; Sophisticated circuit.

I llustrations and info 8-11-08
~~~ Vibrato Fabrication Examples ~~~

Listed in order of ease building and readily available materials.


SITE MENU

Top Views From Bass Bout angle.
And a side page:

Backside Views.

Top Treble Bout Angles and Neck Views.

BLANK.

Disassembled and Layout Preparation Views.

Pickups / Electronics Harness Views.

Pickup and Rocker Switch Internal Details.

Schematic and circuit logic.
And a side page:

More views of electronics, Neck, Headstock and Truss Rod access.

Truss rod access screw hole repair.

Preliminary Assembly 1.

Preliminary Assembly 2.

Neck Joint screw holes refurbish.

Neck pocket gauged and planed.

Taping, masking and touch-up painting inside of cutaway horns.

Noteworthy work in reassembly & set-up.

Guitar Finished

Packing inner carton

Packing into outer carton

Work needed / suggested, work done, work I will do.





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Setting The Arm's Swing-Away Tension:

(1) Run bottom two nuts all the way down.
(2) Set Cap nut tight.
(3) Run bottom nuts up tight and lock them with the bottom nut.
(4) Loosen the cap nut to the desired arm swing-away tension.
(5) Adjust swing-away tension with the cap nut.  The bottom lock washer provides the adjusting tension.
() The domed cap nut could also be a thumbwheel cap nut that might be more difficult to find.
Set tight on receiver socket.
Lock the two bottom nuts onto top of stud to use as a tightening head; Set the stud tight into joiner sleeve;  Then release the bottom nuts and set them loosely all the way down on the remaining stud.

NOTICE that the cut-off bolt in example #2 could be used in place of this stud, and will afford a stronger joining by having a pin that goes down into the receiver socket.
Set the arm's swing-away tension with the compression sleeve nut.
The rubber washer provides the swing-away clamping tension.
Rubber compression washer or "O" ring.
Like brass compression nuts for copper water pipe.
Nylon or teflon washer.
Run bottom nut all the way down and loose.  Set the cap nut tight.  Run the bottom nut up tight against the lock washer.
Set the arm's swing-away tension with the compression sleeve nut.
The rubber washer provides the swing-away clamping tension.
The arm's end should be equal to the depth of the receiver sockt depth.
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Rubber compression cone washer or fat "O" ring.
Stainless steel or aluminum flat stock rounded, drilled and filed of sharp edges.
Bend arm to suit personal preferences.
EXAMPLE 1:
EXAMPLE 2:
EXAMPLE 2:
Joiner sleeves of the same thread throughout are easier to find; So the stud and receiver socket threads will likely need to be the same. The receiver thread is surely metric.