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To clarify... it's a birch "big red". My question about bedding... if I installed a dummy selector, would bedding be worth the trouble? Adding a wood plug would provide a solid backing for an even bedding job... but said plug would aesthetically look like ass (in my humble opinion).
So has anyone ever successfully
glassed a stock with a dummy selector (which would look a whole lot better than a mis-matched plug)?
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Can't definitively answer your question. Don't know of anyone who has done a bedding job "over" an installed dummy selector, but willing to bet that
someone has tried it.
As long as the dummy selector is set well into the existing hole for it, and well-secured, I can't see why its presence would be much of a problem when doing a bedding job. IOW, the surfaces of the fake selector should be very slightly depressed compared to the wood surrounding it If the fake selector is plastic, it can be "channeled" for bedding compound, just like the wood on either side of it. But I'm no expert.
I have seen wooden inserts, carefully made of same exact wood as the stock, whose installation was surprisingly hard to see after the entire stock was re-finished.