Hi,
Sorry for the dumb question but I need to verify before I drill holes in my headstock. I purchased several sets of tuners from cbgitty and each one says 2 left / 1 right tuners. I think though that they are all 1 left / 2 right. Please look at the photo of how I have them laid out and tell me if that is how they would go into the headstock. I think I am right and the labels are wrong but wanted to verify before I drill and ruin something.
Thank you,
Mike.
Just an FYI about these open gear tuners. Most of them, including (I think) the one in your photo are easily reversible. That is, you can make a left tuner into a right tuner and vice-verse.
Remove the screw on the straight cut gear and the tuner comes apart.
Look at the frame that holds the worm gear any you'll see that it is symmetrical from left to right.
If you pull the worm gear and handle out of the frame and flip it over, you can reinstall the straight-cut gear and screw and your left hand tuner is now a right handed tuner.
It's one of the reasons I like this type of tuner. It sure beats waiting for an order to arrive in the mail when you need one left and two right tuners but have two left and one right on hand.
Nb if you do a slot and put em in from the side this will be reversed, i.e. what you have now will put two on the bass side and one on the treb side on a right hand neck ;)
eg
Mike > The Phrygian KidFebruary 14, 2015 at 3:18am
That looks beautiful. I already cut my head though so it would have to be the one on top.
you have the tuners laid out as if they were fixed to an imaginary left handed headstock in your picture - one left two right, correct for left handed guitar... the cogs should always be down towards the body...the layout for a right handed guitar would be two left one right as in my photo...
Just to add here: you're laid out right for the tuners you have... I get cheap and buy sets of 6 at a time, which means every other guitar has 2L/1R and 1L/2R.
For your future purchases, you can specify, just keep in mind that "Left" means the peg sticks out left if you're looking at the bottom of the neck ...
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Just an FYI about these open gear tuners. Most of them, including (I think) the one in your photo are easily reversible. That is, you can make a left tuner into a right tuner and vice-verse.
Nb if you do a slot and put em in from the side this will be reversed, i.e. what you have now will put two on the bass side and one on the treb side on a right hand neck ;)
eg
Thanks for the reply. Like this right coming from the back?
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Just to add here: you're laid out right for the tuners you have... I get cheap and buy sets of 6 at a time, which means every other guitar has 2L/1R and 1L/2R.
For your future purchases, you can specify, just keep in mind that "Left" means the peg sticks out left if you're looking at the bottom of the neck ...
John
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