Had to take me to the last detail of the chain that I haven't experimented with yet, the stable. The stable is an important tonal detail and I really like the sound of spruce! The problem is that the stable is subjected to great forces, so the whole stable cannot be spruce. As always when I solve a problem, the actual design comes into place as I make, no drawings here not 🙂

Made a variation on Stewmac's standard pyramid figures in ebony.

Started by gluing together a "plywood" of two 5 mm thick spruce tiles. At each string hole, I inserted a 3 mm thick rectangle in rosewood with the grain across the hole so that the string would not be able to dig into it. To give the stable leg stability, there was a solid piece of rosewood at the top and also a thinner piece of rosewood at the other end. Left a few mm spruce under the last two pieces. In order not to fungus to the abutment of the string ball, I drilled plugs in birch on the underside through about 5 mm spruce. Glued with skin glue between the spruce pieces and the pieces around the strand holes, epoxy to fill in the most difficult fitting pieces on the front and back and super glue for the birch plugs. Maybe I possibly drill in 3 XNUMX mm round rods on the side between the rear and front plate in rosewood so that the stable can not be split in the middle according to the plan, feels like it would be strong enough as it is.

The stable must be painted black before mounting in place. To be mounted on my local guitar that needs updating, may take a while. Want to test if it holds for the string even in the long term, but I think it is strong enough. Should be interesting to test!

The weight of the ebony figure is 26,9 grams but only 15,8 for the spruce figure.