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| Author: | Dave Stewart [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | What's your favoured tuner alignment? |
Seeing Stephen Ziegenfuss' lovely new spalled maple electric got me thinking again ... I wonder what others think. Is there a "proper" (or favoured or whatever!) way to align the tuners? My headstock sides swoop a bit, but I still mount the tuners square. Opinions?? ....perpendicular to the guitar centerline? ....perpendicular to the headstock edge (at the tuner position)? (Perfect for a "poll", but I couldn't figure how to do that.) |
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| Author: | Mike Mahar [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's your favoured tuner alignment? |
I prefer perpendicular to the center line of the neck. If you have a head stock design that is similar to a Gibson or Guild than making the tuning shafts perpendicular to the edge of the head stock will cause the tuner buttons to bunch up. For a Martin style headstock, either alignment seem to look OK. But, for most designs perpendicular to the center line of the neck works best. |
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| Author: | woody b [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's your favoured tuner alignment? |
Perpendicular to the centerline. I think they'd look goofy on my headstock any other way. Mock 'em up, and see what they look like. |
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| Author: | SteveSmith [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's your favoured tuner alignment? |
I think it depends on the headstock but as a long time player if they're angled I don't like them too far off or they seem to be awkward to manage. |
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