What is the depth of the headstock for cbgitty economy tuners on the headstock?
5/8ths was what I seemed to remember but I forgot duh... glued an additional piece of wood on the bottom of the headstock and somehow confused myself. Thank you.
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So to runaway's initial question about the headstock being too thick for the tuner's that showed up....one idea is to take a 1" forstner bit and make a shallow depression on the string side of the headstock for the tuner, should give and neat look and you might not need string trees with the break angle.
Probably important to mention that tuners can be different lengths too. I use a lot of different ones on my ukes and uke ones are shorter than guitar ones but they do vary a bit, with one set of uke tuners I just bought being the dual duty slotted/head through type with a middle hole for slotted head and an end hole for a solid head, which made it need a guitar sized 3/4 or 5/8 head rather than a uke size 1/2 inch or so.
Why bother remembering all that fancy book learning? Just grab your tuner, lay it on the side and mark what you need with a pencil. I can't remember the last time I used an actual measurement.
don't ask me,i'm into my 4th hr trying to fit 4 tuners to a Gibson type headstock that i made too thin in both directions,cut this,bend that,shim those,would've been quicker to make a new neck
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So to runaway's initial question about the headstock being too thick for the tuner's that showed up....one idea is to take a 1" forstner bit and make a shallow depression on the string side of the headstock for the tuner, should give and neat look and you might not need string trees with the break angle.
Probably important to mention that tuners can be different lengths too. I use a lot of different ones on my ukes and uke ones are shorter than guitar ones but they do vary a bit, with one set of uke tuners I just bought being the dual duty slotted/head through type with a middle hole for slotted head and an end hole for a solid head, which made it need a guitar sized 3/4 or 5/8 head rather than a uke size 1/2 inch or so.
Why bother remembering all that fancy book learning? Just grab your tuner, lay it on the side and mark what you need with a pencil. I can't remember the last time I used an actual measurement.
I do the same, I wait till I have the tuner in hand and cut to fit.
don't ask me,i'm into my 4th hr trying to fit 4 tuners to a Gibson type headstock that i made too thin in both directions,cut this,bend that,shim those,would've been quicker to make a new neck