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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on December 8, 2014 at 12:48pm

I am guessing you are using tuners that have the sleeve with the threads on it.

If so, you can use washers to shim the shaft up so the sleeves tighten all the way. If you don't like the color of the washers, you can always paint them black, or gold, or whatever color suits your fancy.

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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on December 8, 2014 at 12:50pm

Dan's right. Also, you could add a thin 1/8" piece of wood (even a section of a top or back of a cigar box shaped to match the headstock shape) to the back of your headstock to make it a bit thicker, without showing on the front.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn on December 8, 2014 at 5:24pm

Here's what I did with the thin pcs inside box but you could do Scott said and us the box 1/8 wood.

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on December 8, 2014 at 9:15pm

if you're using closed tuners the threaded barrel sleeves can be shortened, just cut 5mm off and clean up the end of the thread, works for me :-)

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on December 8, 2014 at 9:57pm

theres a zillion ways to shim em up.  just go for it

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Permalink Reply by Gabriel Scopel de Lima on December 11, 2014 at 3:58pm

I had the same problem building mine today. Headstock too thin, couldn't tight the tuners. I used some washers that I had laying around the house, but in one I had to use a nut. I didn't finish though, maybe I'll change the nut and put some washers too.

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