Ok as some of you may know I cracked the headstock on my strat in half lengthwise during a gig about a month ago... i took it to the repair shop next day and they gave me a fix time of one week and a price of $50. Fair enough...
They called me a week later to say that it was finished. I went down to the shop to pick up the guitar and while inspecting the repair job i found that the repairman had forgotten to glue up the part of the crack that was behind the tuner. The crack started at the headstock above the high E tuner, went down through the tuner hole and out the other side, and continued down to pass right through the logo. Anyway I pointed this out and the repairman kindly took it back and finished the work... one more week.
So two weeks after the accident I pick it up and the crack is fully repaired. So i thank the repairman and go on my way.
That was a week ago. I haven't had time to string up the guitar again (told the repairman i'd string up and do a setup myself to save money) so last night i decided I'd better do it...
When i started to put the strings on, i noticed that the graduated height order of the Sperzel locking tuners on had been reversed! To give some background, about 6 months after I got this guitar (it was my first electric guitar, got it in early '98) i put sperzels on it cuz i hated going out of tune all the time. Sperzels come in a set of 6 (three different heights and 2 for each) and the height on them is staggered to eliminate the need for string trees. The manual said to put the tuners on with the 2 high ones for low e and a, the middle ones for d and g, and the low ones for b and high e. Thats the way I installed them and every other guitar I've seen with graduated-height tuners is set up that way, with the lower tuners being farther away from the nut. OF NOTE: even though they say you don't need a string tree with these I use one anyway because bending the high e and b seems easier with it on. I changed it to a metal roller type tree as well.
I've taken the guitar there several times when it needs major work and they've never touched the tuner order so it was quite a surprise to me to see that they'd reversed the height order, so now the lowest tuners are for the Low e and a and the highest are for the b and high e.
I haven't finished stringing up the guitar because I also discovered that the tuner that took the impact of the fall that cracked the headstock got the gear snapped on the inside and broke it so now i have to get a single sperzel tuning key... but the fact that they changed the tuner order without telling me bothers me mainly because I'm very particular about my setup on my Strats (I worked real hard to get it there just right) AND they did it without telling me...
Should I reverse the order of the tuners back to the original stagger and not say anything? Or should I kindly ask them not to do that again w/out my permission? Will the guitar operate the same with the reverse stagger?
Thanks guys. Lemme know whatcha think.
They called me a week later to say that it was finished. I went down to the shop to pick up the guitar and while inspecting the repair job i found that the repairman had forgotten to glue up the part of the crack that was behind the tuner. The crack started at the headstock above the high E tuner, went down through the tuner hole and out the other side, and continued down to pass right through the logo. Anyway I pointed this out and the repairman kindly took it back and finished the work... one more week.
So two weeks after the accident I pick it up and the crack is fully repaired. So i thank the repairman and go on my way.
That was a week ago. I haven't had time to string up the guitar again (told the repairman i'd string up and do a setup myself to save money) so last night i decided I'd better do it...
When i started to put the strings on, i noticed that the graduated height order of the Sperzel locking tuners on had been reversed! To give some background, about 6 months after I got this guitar (it was my first electric guitar, got it in early '98) i put sperzels on it cuz i hated going out of tune all the time. Sperzels come in a set of 6 (three different heights and 2 for each) and the height on them is staggered to eliminate the need for string trees. The manual said to put the tuners on with the 2 high ones for low e and a, the middle ones for d and g, and the low ones for b and high e. Thats the way I installed them and every other guitar I've seen with graduated-height tuners is set up that way, with the lower tuners being farther away from the nut. OF NOTE: even though they say you don't need a string tree with these I use one anyway because bending the high e and b seems easier with it on. I changed it to a metal roller type tree as well.
I've taken the guitar there several times when it needs major work and they've never touched the tuner order so it was quite a surprise to me to see that they'd reversed the height order, so now the lowest tuners are for the Low e and a and the highest are for the b and high e.
I haven't finished stringing up the guitar because I also discovered that the tuner that took the impact of the fall that cracked the headstock got the gear snapped on the inside and broke it so now i have to get a single sperzel tuning key... but the fact that they changed the tuner order without telling me bothers me mainly because I'm very particular about my setup on my Strats (I worked real hard to get it there just right) AND they did it without telling me...
Should I reverse the order of the tuners back to the original stagger and not say anything? Or should I kindly ask them not to do that again w/out my permission? Will the guitar operate the same with the reverse stagger?
Thanks guys. Lemme know whatcha think.
