Pazzy

In between coats of paint, I worked on fixing the metal tremolo cover. As you can see above, it's being held down by a washer, since it is in fact cracked completely across, as seen here: In fact, if you look closely at the first photo, you will see that a lot of the surface chrome close to that area has cracked too and is only held in place by magic or something. Anyway, firstly I bent and hammered it down to something resembling flat: Then I roughed the surface of it near the crack with a view to trying to solder it together. Remember that the chrome plating in this area was close to flaking off anyway. I figured this was also the least intrusive way to join it without discolouring the surrounding chrome too much. However, I could not get the solder to stick to the metal cover, so tried a different route. First of all, I set about cutting a piece of aluminium into the shape of a somewhat oblong washer. Just as I was almost finished, I discovered I had a much thinner piece of alum...