Installing Sperzel tuners with reamer
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2014
- Installing Sperzel tuners with reamer
The link for the reamer that I used is provided below:
www.amazon.com/Woodstock-D4140...
The reamer is a "Woodstock D4140 Repairman's Taper Reamer"
Keep in mind that there are many (and probably better) reamers out there. This company pays me nothing for using its product.
Instead of guessing... After you do the first one, put a piece of tape on the reamer for a depth stop marker.
This helps! Thank you
8 years later, and you are still the only one
There are others, just rephrase your query...
This was very helpful. I must say that it was a lot of work on my MIM Tele. It took quite a while to ream the holes, and my hands were sore for a couple of days, but it worked and had no cracks, chips, etc. It was worth the time, and the price was right. It could be that I had a cheap reamer, as I bought mine at Harbor Freight for $2.99, so you get what you pay for I guess.
I did have an issue with one of the tuners, as the threads stripped out, so be very careful when screwing in the tuners. The threads on the tuner peg broke off. The seller is replacing it, and Sperzel does sell individuals in case your seller won't replace it, or doesn't have singles.
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to show us. This is really helpful!
Just watching you do this is confidence inspiring, thanks!
Thanx brah. Thanks to you, I didn't have to grind away my SG with damn round file.
Just got back from Harbor Freight purchasing part #66936 for $2.99 T-Handle Reamer in the plumbing isle.
Putting some used Schaller pegs I have on a $79.00 Epiphone Les Paul Junior.
The Epiphone Pegs holes are 5/16" and the bottom opening needs to be 3/8" according to my hole template guide so I'm going in from the back side 1st.
Thanks for taking the time to post this...
+Stephen Feist 3/8 is too small . the epiphone holes are metric 8mm. the sperzal holes are metric 10mm.. 3/8" would be too small
Thanks for this video, man. I've been putting off finishing two project guitars because I had no idea how to enlarge the tuner holes. 8mm holes are a bitch but this will help. Thanks!
Nice job thanks for posting , as you say there are almost no vids on how to do this
Just FYI: the name "Les Paul" isn't French, it's the name of the guy who designed the guitar. It's pronounced "Less Paul" not "Le Paul" :)
Joe Mofo I was gonna say....dis I hear him say "le Paul"???? Lol
Yep. It's short for Lester.
Just an FYI... always use the reamer from the back of the head stock and use a reamer like you can find on StewMac under Luthier Tools. Tuners never go all the way up. There is a taper with a reamer... that is why you go from the back. The StewMac reamer (not promoting them, just where I know the right type can be found) is designed specifically for this and does it just right.
I use a tapered reamer to start but finish with a 10mm straight reamer makes a perfect hole
I decided not to buy the eighty dollar reamer from the highly reputable guitar company, & after watching your video, I went to it. I used a General T-handled reamer from Amazon that enlarges holes from 1/8" to 1/2". It cost approximately ten dollars. I have a Precision Guitar Kit from Canada, and I had to enlarge the potentiometer holes to 3/8's of an inch to accommodate my CTS pots. After several gentle but firm turns, the CTS pot slipped through the hole snug and perfectly. Maybe . . . maybe one hole got a little tiny bit of wood hogged slightly out of center, but this is negligible. The aforementioned guitar company is a wonderful place to learn from and to buy tools and parts from. They're great, but I couldn't hack the eighty dollar reamer. If one built guitars all the time, it would be another matter entirely. Thanks for your video.
question please, I have a les paul replica from burny and I want to replace current tuning pegs (sort of metallic modern like the ones in your guitar here) with vintage ones, the one in plastic and with 2 screws. Now beside the screws position and the fact that current pegs have only one screws each and vintage has 2, would I have any problem in making this change? Would that be straightforward as just screwing the second hole or I will find issues positioning the new mechanics?
You can use the cardboard that the tuners come in to mark your reamer, to the correct depth,and wrap some masking tape to the mark,just push the reamer down into the holes on cardboard and mark the depth with a magic marker, I believe it's the same size as the hole you want to drill.
I have a Chinese knock off les paul,and I'm upgrading the grover knock off tuners,with vintage green tulip tuners, since the guitar is green,the problem I'm having,is that the stock tuners work just fine, and I'm afraid to drop in the grover tulip tuners if they require a ream job, but they do sale adapter bushings so you can go back to the 8mm hole style tuners if you decide to go back to someday,you can even glue a dowal in the hole and redrill the holes, since the bushings cover the hole anyway, and are a little bigger then the vintage tulip type bushings.
Thanks for the video. This is exactly what I was looking for. Ordered a reamer of Amazon for $20 and it did the job fine. I was kinda nervous with the first hole. But like you said you can kinda gauge how far you need to go on the next holes based off the wood crumbs/markings on the reamer from doing the first one. Much appreciated.
You can do it from the top but to easily know where to stop put one of the tuning key washers on the reamer. Use the washer as a depth stop as it sets flush with the surface anyhow. 👍
if you ream from the back side of the headstock you dont have to go all the way thru .. the upper shaft of the sperzals fit the original holes
Yes, the posts from the tuner themselves fit, BUT the nut will NOT. The hole still has to be enlarged. Vintage style tuners and cheap import tuners go in 9mm holes. Modern sealed tuners (Locking and non locking) require 10mm holes. So to upgrade, you must ream all the way through, whether you go from the front or back. I have done this on countless guitars.
can you share the link for that reamer from amazon?
Thanks
Just done one. 10mm drill running reverse. Go half way through from each side! No tear out.🇬🇧
Best to reame the finish hole we drill a 9 mm hole than finish with a straight 10 mm reamer
Thanks !
it tell you on the sperzel web site go to ( catalog, then at the bottom the page "VIDEO"
Good vid. StewMac does sell a tuner pin locator jig that does a much better (and faster) job than the included template for drilling the tuner pin holes. If you do a lot of Sperzel installs, it is worth the $$.
will this take it to 10 millimeters?
What is the reamer size?
Can you invest them for a left-handed guitar?
Ippafewn Lay Paul
Bad idea. Using a taper reamer from the top will defeat the design of that type of bushing. That will make you not like the tuners very well, for the wrong reason.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, do some research before you ruin your guitar.
It doesn't take any more money to do it right.
Don’t you end up with a tapered hole?
Yes, but it doesn't matter. This is about as legit and safe a method as you'll find.
As he says, he just needs the bushing to fit on the headstock face side. Doesn't matter about the other side.
Great question. This had me puzzled, too. As explained by Stewmac:
1) ream the hole to the correct size from the top
2) do the same thing from the bottom,
3) then take a round "rat" file and flatten the raised middle part of the hole until it's the same size as the top and bottom.
Note: With some tuners, as in this video, you don't need to ream the entire hole. Sometimes the new tuner only requires changing just the top, because the bushing is bigger, but not the bottom, because the new tuner housing is the same size as the old one. And the opposite is true. Sometimes you just need to ream the bottom because the new tuner housing is bigger, but not the top, because the bushing is the same size as the old one.
is there some kind of incentive for yammering on and on and not getting to what we came here to see. use the freakin reamer and let us know how to use it as you do it. for the love of god. yap yap yap yap yap.
Real Les Pauls have a 2 screw truss rod cover.
david crawford real les pauls don't say Epiphone either... That truss rod cover is a Gibo ripoff but he didn't paint over the Epiphone logo so I'm guessing it's not an attempted fake. Gibson has two screws on the cover, epiphone has 3.
Real Gibson LP's have a 2-screw cover. Real Epi LP's have the 3-screw cover. The early 2000 models were labeled Gibson.. just like you see here. He even says in the vid that it's an Epi.
Les Paul is the model . So yes this I a les Paul model guitar
ummm... what?
Um
It is never recommended to use a reamer to widen the hole diameter, as this will result in a tapered hole. I recommend using an electric drill or a drilling machine.
Urrrmmmmm......
Um Purist? You mean doing it the right way. Um just drill out the holes to the size required. Um dont use a reamer. Um
12 minutes narrating how to use a f'ng reamer?!!!
Complete waste of time. "Le Paul"?? LMAO. You must be new around here.
' ummmm' is getting tiresome after 15 seconds