Vintage tuners on STA 1M kit

[Simon Barden]

It was about 10 years ago now, so I can't remember exactly what I used. I just worked out the most suitable sized head and went to the local hardware store and bought some short screws with wide heads that looked about right. Nothing technical at all. In fact it turns out I used a mixture of original and new screws as the holes weren't evenly spaced.



Very much a bodge job, and I'd do a lot better today. But it was very cheap neck from eBay and I couldn't be bothered to remove the fake Custom Shop decal.

[king casey]

. But it was very cheap neck from eBay

FWIW I recently got a cheap maple Kmise neck off ebay to replace the engineered rosewood one on my TL1-R.
It came with 8mm holes accurately spaced for vintage tuners (so it can be done chaps).



cheers, Mark.

[Simon Barden]

FWIW I recently got a cheap maple Kmise neck off ebay to replace the engineered rosewood one on my TL1-R.

cheers, Mark.

It certainly can, and a cheap replacement vintage neck from someone like Kmise is probably the best route to go down. Then you can happily use vintage tuners with vintage diameter bushings without any problems and you know everything will fit.