Now it was time to put this baby back together. The first thing I did was drill a small hole under the area where the tremolo plate goes to run the guitar ground. next I shined up the brass shielding plates with regular old brasso. I then buffed them up with #0000 steel wool, and nailed them back in the guitar.
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here, notice I ran the guitar ground, and filled the hole back with wood putty to keep the wire from pulling out. I also soldered the brass pieces together, like it was originally.
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