a_arnold -> RE: a simple, elegant and cheap solution . . . (May 14 2012 19:00:39)
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Cool - was this your idea, or did you see that somewhere? My idea after several attempts. I hereby give the patent to the foro flamenco. Other similar (less elegant) solutions: First I bought the tiny planet waves tuner bcz it is the most inconspicuous, then I played around building a "cejilla" that mounted on the back of the headstock with a tuner mounted on the body of the 'cejilla' (leaving only a black string showing across the front). Worked, and would work on a guitar with machine tuners. But the black string still bothered me, and the "cejilla" added unnecessary weight for someone (like me) who plays with his guitar cocked up in the "traditional" position. Second attempt, I built an ebony gizmo that clamped on the string of one of my regular cejillas and carried the tuner pressed against the back of the neck, in the area under the "dead" end of the strings so it was always out of the way when playing. I am in the habit of clamping the cejilla above the nut when I'm not using it, so it worked when tuning open strings -- but I couldn't leave it on the guitar when it was in the case because of my case design. Invisible from the front and functional, but inelegant. Third idea: The mounting bracket/clamp for this tuner could be cut down until the attachment point becomes just a flat plastic disk without a clamp. The disk is large enough to drill holes in and screw mount (or even inlay) it into the back of any headstock. Invisible, functional, even lighter, even more easily removable, but requires minor modification of the back of the headstock. Any of those 3 solutions would have worked with a guitar having machine heads, but I settled on this solution as the most elegant, and best for me since I have only pegheads. This is something that all luthiers should give away with their pegheads. It took less than 5 minutes to make. I bet that a clever luthier could design a gizmo that fit on the back of a machine head to give similar purchase to a tuner.
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