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PSA: 10 minute, £8 MASSIVE improvement to headless bridges

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carloscarlos Frets: 3458
edited November 2022 in Guitar
If you have a headless bridge that has tuners like this
You might have been frustrated at how stiff they are which makes tuning precisely a bit of an effort. Too weak a turn and the thing doesn't move; too strong a turn and it overshoots correct tuning. Thankfully, I discovered recently that there's an easy way to improve them using ball bearings. And when I write improvement, I mean a massive improvement. As accurate and precise as a top of the range Floyd microtuner and easy to do.
First, you'll need some bearings. I got these from Amazon but you might find them elsewhere. Size is F3-8M.
Remove the tuner (note that there's no need to change strings as you can put it back in the claw)

Bearings go in (you can keep the existing spacer if you want)

And back it goes

All tuners with ball bearings now and a much nicer guitar to work with. Total time less than 10 minutes.

My feedback thread - https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/107730/carlos
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