Could Somebody Translate This Into American?

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Chistopher

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I'm working on a build that requires metric drill bits. I have a set of 32 drill bits from 0" to 1/2" in 1/64" increments, but I don't have a single one of those darned commie metric bits. Can anyone give me from personal experience the best substitutes?

Here's what I need: 10mm, 6.7mm, and 12.5mm.

And to make this thread interesting, here are some gratuitous pictures, and the 10mm is for the tuners:

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You realize that a TOM style bridge requires an angled neck pocket (which you don't have on that cheap strat without a shim) right?

Why does it require metric drill bits? Are you just trying to convert mm to fractions?

Save this link

http://syzygy.virtualave.net/decimal_inch_to_fractions.html

Calculator that will let you choose the fraction.
 
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Ayrton said:
You realize that a TOM style bridge requires an angled neck pocket (which you don't have on that cheap strat without a shim) right?
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Yup, I've shimmed multiple guitars for surface mount Floyd's before. It isn't too much of an issue.

Thanks for the link.
 
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Commie drill bits? LOL 2.54 centimeters per inch if that helps
 
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You know all America has to do is print the road signs and rulers in both imperial and metric for a few years and then everyone can be on the metric system.
 
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Or 25.4mm.
 
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Ayrton said:
You know all America has to do is print the road signs and rulers in both imperial and metric for a few years and then everyone can be on the metric system.
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Here's what I think, for certain things the metric system is a lot better, such as science or anything that requires the ability to be scaled. But some things also favor American Freedom Units. I won't go into detail, because I don't have any life changing revelations and it honestly doesn't matter much to me.
 
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6.7mm = 17/64”
10mm = 25/64”
12.5mm = 31/64”
These are rounded to the nearest 1/64”.
 
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I can't read your question. I only speak British, not American.
 
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Stop screwing around and buy yourself a COMPLETE set of drill bits - fractional, metric, and wire gauge. They are less than the cost of a single Seymour Duncan pickup, and will serve you well for many years.
 
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The American system is just ridiculous. Who the fk has even the most vague idea how 1/64" compares to a mm?

I once had to chase the previous owner of my MIM Strat for the truss rod key, cause none of my metric allen wrench worked! I browsed Fender site and found that the stock key WAS indeed in inches.
 
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I’d like to see decimal inches as a transitional scale. I think the fractions blow ass. As it is, it just gives us an excuse to own more tools. And who can really object to that?
 
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Chistopher said:
Here's what I think, for certain things the metric system is a lot better, such as science or anything that requires the ability to be scaled. But some things also favor American Freedom Units. I won't go into detail, because I don't have any life changing revelations and it honestly doesn't matter much to me.
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The imperial system developed from what were first known as English units, as did the related system of United States customary units.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units -
 
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The most annoying thing of all is that these measures could wary from country to country: for instance, a US cup is 240 ml, a New Zealand cup is 250.

I've used metric all my life, but have gotten used to the imperial for many guitar related matters. I still have to struggle to remember the different Floyd Rose nut widths, though; that is one seriously messed up system!
 
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Here's how I remember it:

The average forearm is somewhere around a foot.
My thumb is exactly 1 inch wide at the knuckle.
One yard is a stride.
Weight is tougher since it's not very often you have to judge something by weight, but a baseball is a pound and a gallon of fluid is almost 10.
A gallon is almost 10 pounds of fluid.

Just a side story, one time I went to a YMCA in the UK that used kg instead of lbs, it was very not fun. I assumed that a 25kg, the largest, was 45 pounds. Nope, more like 55.
 
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Greetings America. Your ways are quaint.

10mm = 0.393 inches
6.7mm = 0.264 inches
12.5mm = 0.492 inches
 
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I do remember the 'metrification' movement in 1979 here in the US. We learned how the metric system works. We were going to switch over to it, but, I think, the auto industry here stopped it. I'd be for metrifying the US- it makes so much more sense.
 
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