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Topic: Weighted Ernie Ball Bar |
Joseph Meditz
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Sierra Vista, AZ
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Posted 24 Apr 2013 5:54 pm |
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The little Ernie Ball logo disk at the bottom of the bar fell off making the end uncomfortable. Since it revealed a hole about 1 1/2" deep I decided to fill it with a 1/4-20 SS bolt. The bolt head was ground down, polished and set with Brownell's red epoxy. The epoxy covered the bolt head and formed a smooth, shiny cabochon.
The bar now weighs 8.30 oz which makes it about as dense as a BJS. It is now very comfortable to use, and I could not hear any difference in tone compared to the BJS.
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Apr 2013 4:37 pm Re: Weighted Ernie Ball Bar
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| Joseph Meditz wrote: |
The bar now weighs 8.30 oz which makes it about as dense as a BJS. It is now very comfortable to use, and I could not hear any difference in tone compared to the BJS. |
Now you've gone and done it! 
I can just hear the collective fussin', fumin', and stutterin' echoing across the land. |
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Michael Hummel
From:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 25 Apr 2013 5:12 pm
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As a 3/8 French-Canadian mongrel, I'd like to congratulate you on your use of 'cabochon'. It's a word I'd not heard of before, and at first I suspected that you had misspelled it. But I looked it up, and I was wrong.
Nice bar!
Mike
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Joseph Meditz
From:
Sierra Vista, AZ
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Posted 19 May 2013 2:02 pm
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The bottom of my BJS bar is covered with a sticker. I don't like the way that sticker looks or feels. So I removed it, filled the hole with a SS screw which added 0.1 oz, and then epoxied it with Brownells mixed with black dye.
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