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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:58 pm 
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I replaced a set of tuners today. The old ones were so creaky, so difficult to turn, so frustrating to use that I was moved to immortalize them through art. They now hang on the wall of my shop, a better place than any guitar.






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Turns out there was another angry spirit inside those tuners:





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I'm betting on the fact you'll be prying those screws off that art to fix a guitar.

Hey, did anyone ever tell you you're nuts?

Lex, it's good to see you are staying out of trouble!


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If you mount an old tuner on a caul, you can use it with a ball end steel string to through clamp repair cleats.
Use a number drill the same size as a high E string to drill through the side (or whatever) & the cleat, run the string through from the inside & crank it snug with the tuner / caul assembly.
Not as cute as the ticked off gearhead plaques though!


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Very cool Ringo - I like it!!


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Hey, no fair.  That top one looks like my guitar's headstock, tuners and all! 

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