![]() After the modifications were setup, I had a die made that stamped out the embossed portion of the tailpiece. My dad mapped out the original 12 string on Solidworks and we went over some of modifications together. I worked extensively with my dad, Fred Cambio, on the design of the tailpiece. ![]() I had a very limited budget, so farming the job out to a metal shop was out of the question. I put in quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to make tailpieces, but I figured it was an important element that I wanted to include on my guitars. These days loop end strings are obsolete, so the posts for mounting them are, for the most part, decorative. The old tailpieces were set up to use either loop or ball end strings. In the old days strings came with either ball or loop ends. I made the holes a little larger and widened the overall dimension of the tailpiece in order to have sufficient material in between the holes. The guitar was an early 12 string (teens era) and the holes for the ball end strings were a little too small to accommodate modern strings. The tailpieces I make were slightly modified from a tailpiece that came off of an old Stella 12 string. I recently made up a batch of 12 string tailpieces for some guitars in the current batch, so I figured I would document the process.
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