My LP got reamed. Well, the peg holes, anyway.

[psychnurseblues]

Well, after looking around on the interwebz and in actual stores, I decided that the next stop would be a tool shop where I bought a reamer.

If pics are worth a thousand words, let me have them tell you what I did...

Went to a cousins house last night for a jam session and the guitar performed really well. I don't know if I'd tightened the locking wheels on the tuners enough at first because I found myself out of tune, but then when I snugged everything down it held. I think it'll take a couple of string changes for me to get the hang of it. Pretty neat the way the tuners lock down on the string and cut off the excess when you tune them. I like the look too. I didn't like the plastic buttons of the Kluson style tuners. And I like the matte black studs with chrome nuts and washers and machines on the back. It took some reaming but it was worth the effort. I filled the unused screw hole from the original tuners with an unused screw from the unused tuners.

 

[themightyjaymoe]

I have sperzel tuners on my trad, and one of my strats, I swear by them.

 

[Brianr0131]

I have those on 2 of my LPs and I didn't need to do anything but push them in. There was a little resistance but nothing a little elbow grease didn't fix.

I LOVE them though. Although I wish the chrome ones were fully chrome. The black part is a little bush league if you ask me. That's why I used black on my JR and I may go with all black fro here out too

 

[your idol]

I have those on 2 of my LPs and I didn't need to do anything but push them in. There was a little resistance but nothing a little elbow grease didn't fix.

I LOVE them though. Although I wish the chrome ones were fully chrome. The black part is a little bush league if you ask me. That's why I used black on my JR and I may go with all black fro here out too

yeah..i was gonna say i had a Deluxe with the Planet Waves self clipping tuners and they didnt need reamed at all

 

[psychnurseblues]

Well here's what I learned:
If your Les Paul has tuners that have a screw down bushing typically indicated by a nut shape over a washer around the tuning peg on the face of the headstock, then your peg holes are 10mm and no reaming will be needed to fit a variety of tuners.

If, like mine, your tuners have a round press in bushing with no nut shape around the peg, and no washer, then your peg holes are probably only 9mm and will need to be reamed to accommodate a change in tuners that require a 10mm peg hole.

I bought the reamer and went little by little from both sides of the headstock until the new tuner would fit. Going from one side only would have resulted in a hole that was tapered to the shape of the reamer inducing a bit of slop due to it being a conical hole with a 13mm hole at the backside and a 10mm at the front.

Were I to do it again I might get a 10mm drill bit or equivalent and a hand held chuck for it and just use that as a reamer. But what I did worked ok.

 

[TinyTerror]

stumbled upon another of your threads! damnn psych, that guitar is beautiful!