First time trying out Musikraft Custom Neck
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Bob411
thrumming with potential
Do you mean by "couple of divots", for the two pins instead of one tiny screw hole like these?
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/acc...hine-heads?rNtt=Fender Locking Tuners&index=1
Looking for advice. The way I dealt with them- Found drill bit same size as hole for tuner post, drilled with that into a scrap of pick guard. Made some paste, water/chalk from my chalk line, dipped the pin ends into paste, to mark where to drill two small holes for the pins. It worked, sort of. had to drill holes for pins bigger because it wasn't quite right.
Is there a better way? Son will be home for Father's day. He's doing a Warmouth 5 string Jazz, all Schaller hardware. Schaller tuners have the same f*&#@ing pins.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
The best advice I've seen on those is to take a Fender or Charvel neck with the holes and photocopy the back to make a template.
If you don't have one, I could send you a scan of my Charvel headstock. I'm thinking that it could be fairly easy to turn it into a template.... with a bolt in the first and last tuner holes, then put a bump stop on a drill bit and zip zip the divots on either side.
If you don't have one, I could send you a scan of my Charvel headstock. I'm thinking that it could be fairly easy to turn it into a template.... with a bolt in the first and last tuner holes, then put a bump stop on a drill bit and zip zip the divots on either side.
tiger roach
Urban Bovine Knievel
Pretty cool man! As looney guitars go. 
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Thanks man but, both sets of tuners are on guitars now. I might take you up on the offer if I need to upgrade a guitar again. I do love them and with the sale Punk Kitty turned me onto, $25 for each set, they were a bargain.
Don't suppose you have a 5 string bass with Schaller tuners?
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Another quick tip... for those of you who are mounting vintage style tuners where there is a bushing that is press fit into the face of the instrument, and then the tuners are screwed to the back (as opposed to the modern style where the face of the headstock has bushings that thread through the headstock and screw down onto the tuner itself):
I've had issues in the past getting the tuner post perfectly straight through the round bushing, occasionally rubbing against the opening.... not enough to cause issues, but just kind of irritating in an O.C.D. way.
When I put these tuners in place, to keep each centered and not flopping around loosely, I wrapped each post with a little strip of paper, maybe 1.5-2" long just so they would sit snuggly inside the bushing. It made it easier to line them up in back, put a mark where each screw should go, use a small awl tool to make a divot, then drill a tiny pilot hole for the tuner screws.
Mahogany is pretty soft, but hard maple or especially rosewood, you will snap the head off of those tiny screws in a heart beat (which suuuuuucks) if there isn't a pilot hole for each screw. Once those holes are aligned properly, the tuners install like a breeze and every single tuning post is perfectly centered in the bushing.
I've had issues in the past getting the tuner post perfectly straight through the round bushing, occasionally rubbing against the opening.... not enough to cause issues, but just kind of irritating in an O.C.D. way.
When I put these tuners in place, to keep each centered and not flopping around loosely, I wrapped each post with a little strip of paper, maybe 1.5-2" long just so they would sit snuggly inside the bushing. It made it easier to line them up in back, put a mark where each screw should go, use a small awl tool to make a divot, then drill a tiny pilot hole for the tuner screws.
Mahogany is pretty soft, but hard maple or especially rosewood, you will snap the head off of those tiny screws in a heart beat (which suuuuuucks) if there isn't a pilot hole for each screw. Once those holes are aligned properly, the tuners install like a breeze and every single tuning post is perfectly centered in the bushing.
Wyatt
Kick Henry Jackassowski
And, for any lurkers out there, hardwood requires larger pilot holes and always wax every screw before first screwing it in.
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