Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

[ItsaBass]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

Okay, I'm pretty sleep-deprived right now, so I'll blame that for any immediate stupidity.. but here's what it seems like to me...

The two small tiny posts on the side that goes flush against the back of the headstock (opposite of the locking knob, itself) are preventing me from fitting the tuners in. Do they go INTO the wood or just kind of sit there and make the tuner's stand at a funny angle? I've tried putting the tuners through the hole and the screw that goes on top of the tuning peg to hold it in its spot, but because of those pesky posts keep forcing the tuner to tilt and causes the screw to tilt so I can't screw it any further.

Get me? No? Hope so?

Anyways, I'm about tempted to just knock them off, but then my tuners would be rotating like no one's business.
Do I dig them into the wood or do they just stand there?

Of course the little nubs go into the wood. You need to drill holes to take them. But I guess it doesn't matter since you already sent them back.

Read the instructions first! We've all been trying to help you needlessly for, what, two days now? All you needed to do was 30 seconds of Googling, or to read the instructions, if there were any.

 

[whatshisname]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

The tuners are graduated, to eliminate the need for string trees. There's nothing wrong with them.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

The tuners are graduated, to eliminate the need for string trees. There's nothing wrong with them.

Check out the first set of photos. They still don't go through far enough. And in the OP's last post, we find out that it is because he didn't drill holes for the nubs on the back. mg:

 

[trevorus]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

As always, RTFM, which I have been guilty of not doing!

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

 

[JonnyG92]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

The manual is the FIRST thing I look for.
Contents included: 6 tuners and mounts, one cheap cardboard box, one plastic bag, one tag on the top to identify the product. Instructions? No.

Did I Google? Yes?
My results were several variations on the question: "Why are the tuners staggered?"

So... Yeah, I'm not actually stupid, just new to this sort of thing.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

Did I Google? Yes?
My results were several variations on the question: "Why are the tuners staggered?"

http://www.electric-guitar-info.com/guitar-tuners.html

I find this hard to believe. Took me 30 seconds or less to find that with a search for "installing locking tuners." It was hit number nine, and was the only one in the top 10 that looked promising enough to me to bother clicking on. The only other one that looked remotely fruitful was an E-How article, and I know by now that those are not the best, so I passed it over.

I'd read that article, and call up to get your tuners sent back to you. They are well worth the effort of installation.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Fender Schaller Locking Tuners... No love for Squier?

I like threads like this. They show me that I still fix and buiild guitars for a good reason