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Originally Posted by IndianHillMike
Thanks! It sure seems to be coming together nicely.
Thanks John! I've mostly done oil finishes on my headstocks with this design and haven't run into any issues with clearance. So long as there's no finish on the edges of either the cover or the recess, it seems like even a hairline gap between the two is enough and I also ever so slightly bevel back the edges that have to swing past each other. I did a similar design on the lower bout to cover up a pickup jack and that required a bit more finessing after finishing (UV Polyester) but was still mostly just scraping finish off the sides.
And you got it for how it works -- it's just held by a small magnet (not shown in the pictures above) so you press down and up it pops!
Here's one from a couple of years ago in action...
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I have it on really good authority that the pictured truss rod cover works exactly as advertised (magic!) and that the only thing better than it is how great the rest of the guitar turned out…. Mike’s the real deal, folks. I thank my friend Joel Michaud for pointing me his way. No doubt this will be a fantastic instrument!