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1095 would be the cheapest, easiest, but again it will need heat treatment and temper, but you know that, right?

It originally had finger guards on both bolsters. Someone removed them. boooo, But we gotta realize people do these things for whatever reason, and it greatly ruins the value. My friend is a Luthier and you would not believe how many 20-30 thousand dollar guitars are rendered worthless (well until ...

Dark just read my post. If your friend is a machinist, it will not be hard for him to take the two single springs and make them into one if that's what you want. Period. I had the doubles they broke I ordered some of the last (to my knowledge) good singles. There were two, as far as I know. The good...

You can still buy the single springs, but if you insist it would be the same shape as the double spring and hold them together and measure with some calipers. You also know they will need to be heat treated and tempered?

Very cool, I can't help you , but I'm a neighbor (Columbus OH). It would be nice to see something like that come back around. I don't see why you couldn't get real darn close from the pics if you can't find an original. The way the release sits seems like you could base it off the Italian super auto...

As Bill says there's just not that many people that do this sort of thing. And the people that do make a living from it. So it's not cheap.

Thanks Bill, true indeed just how I've gotten used to doing it. Think I'll break the habit for awhile and try it your way.

Good luck guys glad I could help.

Monkeyleg short and long of it. Dremel the heads off carefully, tap them out with a punch. Buy brass pin stock, if it's too big chuck it in a drill and use a file to get it to size. Clip a piece off put it in a vice, use a light 2 ounce hammer and tap, tap tap, till you get a nice little head. Put i...

My band has and original I wrote called switchblade. The chorus is "the flick of the knife, the flash of the steel, SWITCHBLADE'

Also, a 'kit' model may be available

that's is awesome news.

lookin good Bird!!

I love it it, that's very nice, I got a big soft spot for clip points.

973 please, yeh 999 members we'll see!

Cool redeye, just picked up a similar piece.

real Hodaka

Heck yeh 100 percent ACE100!!!!
Thanks Tom I was hoping you would chime in you are quite a wealth of knowledge when it comes to manuals especially. I forgot to write the tang stamp. I'll post later.