Building a BC-1 guitar for my son

[Trevor Davies]

Tonight I'm adding the headnuts. I watched the Pitbull video for a 3-a-side - there's a preference to lining up the little screw holes in a tidy line. Because of the curved shape that my son's guitar head has, and indeed the holes, this won't be possible.

I think the best I can do is mount them tidily, so the bottom and topmost ones don't come in contact with the actual head when they're being turned.

I've attached a couple of pix to show what I mean and see if there's anything stupid I'm doing. You can see in picture B the holes aren't even in a straight line, so they'll never line up! I understand there are left and right hand ones; I think I have them on the corect side!

The tuners are placed on the correct sides.

I agree that all you can do is mount them tidily! The website, from post 43, also shows the headstock and tuners - they have the winders all parallel to each other. I do not think that is possible for your top tuners as the winders will hit the headstock!

[Barno]

The tuners are placed on the correct sides.

I agree that all you can do is mount them tidily! The website, from post 43, also shows the headstock and tuners - they have the winders all parallel to each other. I do not think that is possible for your top tuners as the winders will hit the headstock!

Hi Trevor - that's what I thought! So as tidy as possible, that's how I'll mount them. When I tried to straighten them, they did indeed want to hit the headstock.

Tested the pickups last night - they're working fine.

Tonight I'll get those headnuts sorted.

thanks!