Tuners question left/right

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.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on February 14, 2015 at 9:19am

There is never enough time in a day for me to get done what I want or what my wife wants for that matter. ;)

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on February 14, 2015 at 4:20am

My first build I screwed this up and one tuner was backwards... that ONE string was ALWAYS out of tune...

Until I changed the tuner...

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on February 14, 2015 at 6:21am

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.

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on February 14, 2015 at 7:47am

It was one of my Blind Squirrel moments. It was getting late one night and I was sort or zoning out while staring at a tuner. Finally I noticed that the worm holder was open the same on both sides. A Phillips head later I had it apart. Flipped the worm and put it back together. Worked fine. Wish they had pointed this out in the packaging.