Your opinion - looks or practical

caprae

caprae

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Had a neck made (USACG), had a builder cut a flying V shaped headstock, the guy drilled the holes for the tuners fairly far from the bridge to try and keep the strings as straight as possible.

So my choices are put the 3+3 tuning pegs on the wrong side so it looks better but I have to spin the tuners the opposite way to tune the guitar (this is the way the builder set it up).

Or, put them on the correct way so the knobs are closer to the end of the headstock. It looks a little out of balance - possibly because I'm used to looking at them the other way - but they turn the correct way for tuning.

What would you do? (sorry no pictures as I've had to part with it for a couple of weeks).
 
Re: Your opinion - looks or practical

I don't think it matters which way the shaft turns, but the only weird thing will be that it looks backward on the back of the headstock, but correct on the front. Now that I think about it, it'll probably look better doing it backward, since the tuners will look centered. On the back, the bodies of the tuners will be facing toward the arrow, so it won't look bad either.
 
Re: Your opinion - looks or practical

I didn't notice it until I turned the peg and lowered the not instead of raising it. Now that I look at our other guitars the knob is above the shaft. Bugger that.
 
Re: Your opinion - looks or practical

You can buy reverse tuning pegs so they look right and function the way you think they should.
 
Re: Your opinion - looks or practical

I knew someone would hit on the answer. Thanks PFD.

Just thinking out loud here - is that what they use on lefty guitars or do those just tune backwards?
 
Re: Your opinion - looks or practical

In this case: Neither. Just buy the right tuners from practically any local or online instrument supply.

Aed yes, lefty guitars and guitars with reverse headstocks use lefty tuning pegs, just like the top 3 tuners on a 3+3 headstock.
 
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