strat project

[bford]

I'm putting together a strat project for my son. I'm ordering a mighty mite neck for it. I already have a solid alder two piece body painted and finished. My main question is,

How hard is it to correctly place and install the string tree? Since it's not a tilt back neck, I believe I'll need them. I do plan on putting sperzel trim lock locking tuners on it also if that makes any difference.

Thanks for your time and help.

Bryan Ford

[StratLover]

The Sperzel tuners are built so that the E,A,D strings are pulled down just enough to keep a tree off the headstock for the D string. The next three for the G,B,E also pull the strings down enough to keep trees off the headstock as well.

When installing them make sure you install the tuners with the high post groove in the E,A,D positions and the machines with the lower post grooves in the G,B,E positions. There should be no problems or issues.

Your son is a pretty lucky guy to have a dad like you. My dad made me BUY my guitars on my own. ;D

[damian]

strat lover is exactly correct sperzels require no string trees as they are staggered but as he said make sure the tallest post is at the low E side and the smallest at the high E. i installed them on my guitar when i was like 17 not super hard. the holes may need to be drilled larger I believe its 10mm for sperzels. you must also drill a small pilot hole for a peg on the back side of the tuner. pretty basic if your going to put together a guitar from parts this should be the least of your problems. good luck im sure itll be sweet.

[bford]

Thanks for the info! Another small headache avoided! I'll be sure to place them in the correct positions.

rock on

bford