Ebidis
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New Tuners Day.
Got these...
To put on this...
They went on easy. Drop in replacement, no modification needed.
They work great. Very high quality, smooth operation, no play or backlash, the locking mechanism is solid with no slippage, and the 18:1 gear ratio makes precise tuning easy.
The only issue was when I put them on they were stiff. Loosening the tension screw on the top of the knob took care of that. Now they are smooth as silk, and solid as a rock. Very nice high quality tuners.
So the journey of "The Guitar With No Name" from decent budget guitar to excelent, favorite go to workhorse, is now complete.
Here are the highlights:
Recieved the guitar as a birthday/Christmas present in 1995 from a close friend (now deceased).
-Liked it but had some fret buzz, leveled the frets, and took care of that.
- I liked it but thought it would be better with '50s style wiring, so I rewired it.
- Decided I liked it even better, but wasn't crazy about the pickups.
- Swapped the stock pickups for a some Duncans I had lying around. A '59 neck model in the bridge (that's right, I have a neck pickup in the bridge position of my guitar. F**K conformity), and a Jazz model in the neck.
- Decided I liked it and played the crap out of it for a few months.
- Decided the fretboard edges were too sharp, so I rounded them, and filed the fret ends a bit. Decided I now loved it and played the crap out of it for a couple of years.
- Gave it to my son when he said he wanted a guitar.
- Got it back from my son when he joined the Air Force and left home (he never really stuck with playing the guitar).
- Played the crap out of it for the next few months, fell in love with it again, and decided it was too good a guitar to have a cheap plastic nut, so I carved a bone nut for it.
- Played the crap out of it for the next several weeks and decided it was too good a guitar to have generic tuners, so I put these new tuners on it. I also finished rounding the fret ends a couple of days ago.
So here we are. This is now a pretty high functioning guitar that will stand with the best of them. It also has become my favorite. I have a serious bond with this guitar, it has become mine.
Got these...
To put on this...
They went on easy. Drop in replacement, no modification needed.
They work great. Very high quality, smooth operation, no play or backlash, the locking mechanism is solid with no slippage, and the 18:1 gear ratio makes precise tuning easy.
The only issue was when I put them on they were stiff. Loosening the tension screw on the top of the knob took care of that. Now they are smooth as silk, and solid as a rock. Very nice high quality tuners.
So the journey of "The Guitar With No Name" from decent budget guitar to excelent, favorite go to workhorse, is now complete.
Here are the highlights:
Recieved the guitar as a birthday/Christmas present in 1995 from a close friend (now deceased).
-Liked it but had some fret buzz, leveled the frets, and took care of that.
- I liked it but thought it would be better with '50s style wiring, so I rewired it.
- Decided I liked it even better, but wasn't crazy about the pickups.
- Swapped the stock pickups for a some Duncans I had lying around. A '59 neck model in the bridge (that's right, I have a neck pickup in the bridge position of my guitar. F**K conformity), and a Jazz model in the neck.
- Decided I liked it and played the crap out of it for a few months.
- Decided the fretboard edges were too sharp, so I rounded them, and filed the fret ends a bit. Decided I now loved it and played the crap out of it for a couple of years.
- Gave it to my son when he said he wanted a guitar.
- Got it back from my son when he joined the Air Force and left home (he never really stuck with playing the guitar).
- Played the crap out of it for the next few months, fell in love with it again, and decided it was too good a guitar to have a cheap plastic nut, so I carved a bone nut for it.
- Played the crap out of it for the next several weeks and decided it was too good a guitar to have generic tuners, so I put these new tuners on it. I also finished rounding the fret ends a couple of days ago.
So here we are. This is now a pretty high functioning guitar that will stand with the best of them. It also has become my favorite. I have a serious bond with this guitar, it has become mine.
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(well squires ........that might be worse??)
