I always wince when I use my reamer to install an endpin jack in an acoustic. Can’t help wonder “what if someone wants to remove the PUP and revert back to a strap pin/button?” Stewmac has an endpin with an expanding filler thingy that never appealed to me, but that’s what it’s made for.
But today I installed an endpin preamp in a newish California-built Larrivée. Its tail-mounted strap button was on the end of a bolt that went through the tail block into a T-nut. Removing the strap button and tapping the nut through to the inside left a hole exactly the right size for the jack — no drilling or reaming required! Very cool!
So now I wonder where these things come from. I’ve had at least two clients in the past who were looking to plug jack holes and I’ve never had a good looking solution. Anyone else seen these and know where to get ‘em?
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