Re: Vintage v Reissue F Tuners Question
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:10 pm
that's good to know. If i ever get tired of the tuners on the Mustang, i might try this.will wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:05 amCon-Tiki! wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:58 pmthe first F tuners from the late 60's are very similar to the Klusons, post size and spacing.
in the late 70's ('78 maybe) the German F tuners arrive. They are superior, but have a sleeve cast into the body which requires a bigger hole in the headstock.
the RI F tuners are a direct swap for the German ones.
I've had good luck disassembling the newer "F" tuners, sawing/filing off the "sleeve" that sticks up, and filing the covers so that they would fit on a headstock driller for the earlier-style "F" tuners.
Also, if the tuner shafts don't stick up far enough for those thick later-60's headstocks, you can frankenstein swap some from Music Man / Schaller tuners with the parallelogram shaped covers.