Rebuild Project

[Ron Wendler]

I bought a used PSG off Reverb, with the intentions I would rebuild it from the parts. It is a USA Little Buddy, 10 string. I have heard time and again that they aren't much of a guitar. That's why I'm doing the rebuild. It's something to keep busy with and I want to learn to play it. It actually has solid parts to it. The body is Hard Maple. The end plats are heavy duty cast aluminum. The guts are all steel. The changer fingers are aluminum.
I'm to the middle of getting it back together and it's going well. I've added some things like a raised fretboard and aluminum Headstock with quality Machine tuners. I'm at a dilemma with the changer and the end plate. Something is missing. It first of all has a different method of tuning. There are threaded hex screws in the end plate that I thought would be stops for the changer fingers, but they are off side of the fingers.
To me, and maybe I'm way off on this. It appears that one would depress each pedal, till it come up against a stop plate, and tune the effected strings to the raised pitch. When released, the fingers would go back against these hex screws and using the hex screws, be tuned to standard pitch. Problem is, the hex screws don't line up and there is no adjustment. It's like there are some parts missing.
Does anyone have one of these Little Buddy PSG, that could enlighten me about as to how this works? I know they were made by a couple guys long time back and were basically a starter PSG. I think my build would be a success if I can figure this part out.

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[Ron Wendler]

Here's a pic of the end plate with one screw to show how it works.

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[Rich Cottle]

Turn it upside down and take some more pictures , let's see the guts , then we might be able to figure it out for you , I can see that it looks somewhat like a maverick , aluminum legs , but the changer end plate looks like an emmons push/pull , it's probably a nice guitar the way it is , I would advise not putting on a raised neck cause then you'll have to raise the changer , nut , and you'll have to make the fingers longer , if you have a milling machine then go right ahead , but then by doing all that your gonna de-value it , if you ever decided to sell it , besides by doing all that work what are you gonna accomplish "NOTHIN" it's not gonna sound any better , the mavericks work and sound just fine the way they are , and they play and sound great too

P.S. the more metal you add to it the less sustain you'll get

[Tim Toberer]

Looks good Ron! I think the most important thing with projects like this is that you are happy with it. The nice thing about doing this as a hobby and not a job is we make the decisions and build the guitars that we want to build. Yah lets some more pictures, you are almost to the fun part.

[Bobby D. Jones]

It looks like the screws line up with holes in the end plate, Going through threaded holes in some kind of inter plate.
If you hold ruler up to the picture. The holes on the end plate line up with the edge of each finger. Looks like someone made thinner fingers and put the big black spacers between the fingers, That put the fingers out of line with the screws in their holes.
Changing thickness of end spacers, And lining up the fingers with the screws, Would be 1 cure. Or make new fingers with thinner spacers, To fill the spacing, And line up with stop screws.

Check the changer shaft diameter for proper diameter, To support the strain from the strings.