Despite the fact that the neck came with holes drilled for 10mm tuners, I opted for Gotoh vintage tuners with 8.5mm shaft.
To mount them, I had to use adaptors to fit the smaller shafts into the bigger hole. Unfortunately, the adaptors have not been aged, so that they look much too shiny compared to the tuners.
As I will need to unmount them before doing the finish of the neck anyway, I will try to age them somehow myself.
Placing the adaptors:
Drilling new holes for the mounting screws as the predrilled holes are in the wrong position:
Drilling bigger holes for the screws as the first ones were too tight:
Placing the tuners - they do nicely cover the predrilled mounting screw holes:
Preliminary mounting of the two outer tuners:
I will use those two tuners to attach some string, so that I can properly position the bridge, pickups and pickguard. (More on that will follow in one of the next blog entries...)
To mount them, I had to use adaptors to fit the smaller shafts into the bigger hole. Unfortunately, the adaptors have not been aged, so that they look much too shiny compared to the tuners.
As I will need to unmount them before doing the finish of the neck anyway, I will try to age them somehow myself.
Placing the adaptors:
Drilling new holes for the mounting screws as the predrilled holes are in the wrong position:
Drilling bigger holes for the screws as the first ones were too tight:
Placing the tuners - they do nicely cover the predrilled mounting screw holes:
Preliminary mounting of the two outer tuners:
I will use those two tuners to attach some string, so that I can properly position the bridge, pickups and pickguard. (More on that will follow in one of the next blog entries...)
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