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 Post subject: Tuners - steel vs nylon
PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:54 pm 
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Ok, doofus question, what is the difference between steel string and nylon string tuners for slot head?
Or is there any? Are they interchangeable?

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Nylon string tuners generally have larger barrels. That is due to the fact that they stretch a lot more than steel strings.

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The old guitars designed for gut strings often had smaller rollers. Gut doesn't stretch as much as nylon, but more than steel.
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Classical guitar tuners have softer larger rollers, treble steel strings eat them up. The treble classical strings stretch and stretch the small diameter steel string rollers would be a pain tuning wise.

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Steel strings, steel posts. Nylon strings...
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