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Permalink Reply by Busyhands Slim on February 26, 2013 at 10:12am

Do you mean the shaft with the button is closer to the bridge than the gears and string shaft? If your tuners are set up that way, they won't stay in tune as well. That's why the buttons are always "above" the string peg. (Plus, you'll have to turn them the "wrong" way).

I will not tell you how I know all this.

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on February 26, 2013 at 11:15am

My idea was to have the tuning peg on the headstock on the nut end as usual. But rather than the shaft end coming up and out on the side where the fretboard is. I would have the body on that end and have the pegs coming out the backside of the headstock. I thought that I I allow slots for the strings to pass through with minimal extra tension on the string as it is wound on the peg then the setup could work. Somehow I thought I saw a headstock like this on here quite some time back. And I was hoping a person would have done this somewhere along the line. The thing is that the headstock is not one where enough tension can be on the strings with the peg coming out on the fretboard side. An oversight on my part, or I would just experiment around and find out. Plus I like to rule out unnecessary extra work if said plans are not practical.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 26, 2013 at 4:43pm

Diane in Chicago has a headstock that has some holes for strings to pass through, but hers was for a 3-on-a-side peg setup, where the barrels pass through the headstock laterally. Still, I suppose it could work. Or you could just cut a flat out of the top of the headstock, and glue it on the backside, giving you more string break angle at the nut, and install the machine heads the correct way. But how much fun would that be? >:-E

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Permalink Reply by Busyhands Slim on February 26, 2013 at 5:41pm

OK, I think I get it. You're doing a flat neck, right, with no angle to the headstock? Wouldn't a string tree be easier? That can be as simple as a piece of wire that pulls the strings down below the nut to the level of the tuner shafts. Heck, you could use those little eye screws for picture frames.

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on February 27, 2013 at 3:19am

yes, this might read silly but I just don't like string trees. Not sure why really. My other plan is to install them the way Mr. Sprague described, but something different might be fun.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 27, 2013 at 9:43am

Hey, Mr. Sprague was my father! Colin, if you install them "upside down," try drilling some angled holes through the headstock downwards toward the pegheads. I bet it'd work...and it'd be different. Or you could try drilling 3 large holes in the top of the headstock, then holes at right angles to that, and mount the pegheads from the side, so they extend halfway into the large holes. Somewhere here at CBN I've seen pics of something like this, back around the 2009 time frame.

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on February 27, 2013 at 10:16am

ha! okay oily.

I think if I make small triangle shaped holes at each barrel hole it might be fine.

That time frame seems right, I was hoping that user might still be around.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 27, 2013 at 10:19am

Diane's still on here, contact her...

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on March 2, 2013 at 7:10pm

Done by Surffrogg 2009

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on February 26, 2013 at 5:56pm

busyhands slim -   what  you  describe    is  moreso    with  the cheap  open face  tuners  ..   most   newer      enclosed   tuners  you  can  get away  with  it  , and  mix match  right  and  left

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on March 2, 2013 at 7:05pm

Done by Surffrogg 2009

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on March 2, 2013 at 9:24pm

Is surffrogg still around?

thank you.

I sent a message.

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