As this is a wedding present I made their wedding date the serial number
Using a dremel hobby drill I engraved their names into the maple in an American diner font. It's a little shaky but not bad considering I did it free hand
And then carefully, with a fine brush I painted in some chrome paint. It looks more like silver but it still pretty against the red background.
Next job is to cut the bone nut that came with neck. I used a pencil sliced through the middle and run over the frets to work out the string slot height. I also leveled the frets with an oil stone and re-crowned them with a needle file.
For love nor money I couldn't find a simple chrome truss rod plate so I bought a small off cut of mirror finished stainless steel off eBay.
30 minutes of playing with hacksaw, file and drill and hey presto - one shiny truss rod cover!
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