The New Phone Book's Here!

I've been twiddling my thumbs waiting for my Sperzel tuners to arrive, and using the intervening time to think about how to install them.  My wife was very amused to find a page in our printer that started "I love my sperzels".  She accused me of having written it, but it was in fact some instructions on how to install Sperzels.

I ended up buying them from "pottbelly2000", a.k.a. Ken Harper,  a very nice guy who gave me some advice on how to install them and shipped them out the next day.  It was also a pretty good deal, unless they turn out to be counterfeits.  The people I've encountered thus far have been uniformly nice - the guy who sold me the guitar, Stephen at CEG Hardtails from whom I bought the neck, and now Ken.  And the people on the boards are also nice and funny.  It's a bit different from the "computer guy" subculture I'm used to in which people can also be nice, but not uniformly so.

Here's a post on strat-talk that has information I'll use to install the neck.  There's also a nice tutorial here.  But first I have to install the tuners.  I was dreading this, but it worked out well.


First I drew two parallel lines using a metal rules, the top one "kissing" (or "osculating" as old-time mathematicians used to say) the tops of the pre-drilled holes, the bottom one kissing the bottoms of the holes. I then used my caliper to draw two dots at the midpoints of the lines, then drew a line joining.  So then I knew that the holes for the guide pins for the tuners had to lie on that line.






Then I used the cardboard template that came with the tuners to place the hole, and ended up with 6 nice neat holes.











And here's the result. Not bad!