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You got that zero fret nut on Your guitar, right?

 

Does it follows the fretboard radius?

 

Bence.

 

Yes they do (NB. I don't have them fitted on mine but I do have them both)

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Did you replace the brass nut with the titanium,

I had to file out my low E Slot a little bit with my 10's, On the titanium nut

 

Cheers

 

No, I've got the Tusq replacement on. It's tuned fine, no pings. The intonation was pretty much spot on and it's held its tuning perfectly (12hrs so far)

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Took mine off today and replaced with Gibson Vintage Deluxe pegs... Dead easy! Used a 1.5mm bit in my Dremell to drill the pilot holes and took the opportunity to put my usual 10s on and switch to top wrapping and lowering the bridge. Feels great and sounds it too - I'm not going to make any kind of comparison relating to the GForce because I've changed string size and the bridge settings, both of which I suspect would have had a far greater impact, but there's no doubt it sustains and sounds better.

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Oh question number 1. All the outer parts of the headstock seem to be Sllightly variable.

I couldn't reliably line anything on the outside, so I googled some really detailed pictures of stock Gibsons.

 

And it became clear that they're lining up parallel with a centerline and the inside planes of the box. Because Bottom pair of tuners is a differently spaced from the top one because of the wings Shaped Headstock. Because I assume that's how they drill the holes. I think the wings can be different on each guitar sanding and final cutting. But probably close enough, I did nootice that they were almost lined up with the wing glue line, but not quite on some of the other pictures I found.

 

But the drilled gibson holes also give you an easy approximation of the centerline so if you get them in just straight enough, By eyeball, and Then put a small ruler in their. or Some sort of straight edge, it's very easy to make everything straight and parallel.

 

Thanks Sabredog - very helpful, I will use your methods!

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Yes it was surprisingly nice and easy you do have to take several straight edges to align the tuners to an imaginary centerline.

 

I then tightened with the top not to hold them in place then drilled Just a starting hole not 2-Deep with a 1/16 bit blue out the holes with compressed dry air.

 

Screw the tiny wood screws in and it was done They drop righht in the holes 9.8 mm shaft diameter withh a 9.82 mm hole in the Les Paul.

 

Thanks... 2 (lazy) questions, 1) can you not just line them up with the wing join lines? 2) if the screws are that small do they need a drilled pilot hole, would a braddle not be sufficient?

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Digressing from the weight/tone/sustain discussion for me moment... Did the tuners drop straight in to the existing holes ok? Will at some point take my GForce off so am thinking about which tuners to go for - Gibsons, Schallers or Grovers.

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