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Topic: Comparison of Keyless Tuners |
Sonny Jenkins
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Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 17 Jun 2007 10:12 am |
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Here is the original Keyless tuner on the Black guitar I built (more photos on a previous post) and a more compact model on the guitar I've just finished. The guitar I'm working on now will have an even more compact tuner.
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jun 2007 11:02 am
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That's great looking work Sonny, beautiful job.  The tuners sure can make the guitar compact. I think Gerald Ross needs one, to put in his luggage with his amp
Regards BILL |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 17 Jun 2007 1:51 pm
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 OK I give up!!! In the past if I see something here on the SGF that I don't understand,[which is often],I just keep copying the mail till some one explains it.So far all my questions have been answered for me without exposing my ignorance.But I just gotta know,how the hell do you tune a guitar with keyless tunners?Please keep it as simple as possible.HELP!!!  PJ
p.s. BTW Sonny,thats one nice lookin guitar..Love the color. |
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 17 Jun 2007 2:20 pm
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Hey Papa Joe,,thanks for the kind words. It really isn't keyless,,except in traditional sense of a butterfly type of tuning key,,or machine heads. Each string is attached to a finger by means of a set screw,,and each finger is then pulled away from the nut by another screw through the finger,,,thereby stretching the string,,thereby changing the pitch.
The best way to find out the answer to something we don't know is still,,,just ask,,,,LOL |
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norm mcdaniel
From:
waco tx
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Posted 18 Jun 2007 7:24 am
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Sonny, beautiful work, Ive turned kinda green with envy at such nice work. Id like to know where you get your material for your fretboards. I know in a past comment you said it was name tag material. Where didja get it and can I get some too?
Making my own in Waco texas.
Norm |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jun 2007 11:28 am
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That stuff is available from McMaster-Carr, and in the current catalog, it's on page 1865. It's the same stuff I use for fret boards. If you want to make your own, that's one place to get the stuff. In the catalog it's called "blank engraving plates", which makes it hard as hell to look for it in the index without knowing their name for it. If you don't want to make one, I sell them, 22.5 and 24.5 inch scale. (maybe you can get Sonny to make you one, his are beautiful)
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norm mcdaniel
From:
waco tx
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Posted 19 Jun 2007 4:17 am
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Thanks for the info Ill sure try it.
Norm |
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