Need Good Fitting Machines Heads for Warmoth Jazz Neck

[ChrisMan123]

Hi,

I just bought a new warmoth jazz bazz neck. The mighty mite jazz/precision bass machine heads I have are too big to fit in the holes on the neck. I was wondering what kind of machine heads I should get that will fit well into a warmoth neck. I want them to fit nice and snug because the last neck I had these machine heads on, they were a little loose and began to tilt down towards the bridge when I put strings on.

Warmoth.com has "Schaller BML Bass Tuners" available
I'm hoping these would be a good match for their necks.
Let me know anything you have to offer, I'm gonna hold off on buying machine heads until I know the best kind to fit. Thanks.

- Chris

[slyjoe]

Warmoth has two peghead hole sizes - for 3/8 posts and 11/16 posts. Figure out which one you have (or ask Warmoth).

I'm not sure how they "tilt down" to the bridge under tension - the Schallers I have lock to the peghead with 4 small screws and they don't tilt, no matter the hole size. The correct hole size is good for making sure the bushing fits and that all of the machine heads line up correctly.

Schaller machine heads are generally the "big" ones though, so I'm a little surprised your others are too big. Unless the warmoth neck is drilled for gotoh or ultralite small heads.

See this thread: Measurement for tuners

[ChrisMan123]

I'm gonna have to find out the hole size.
But yeah I think the problem with the old neck I had was that the busing fit too loosely so it kinda was slightly tilted out of the hole with string tension, it just wasn't totally flush in the wood, it tilted slightly out of the hole a bit.

But yeah these Mighty Mite bushings are too big to fit into the warmoth neck holes so I don't wanna buy new machine heads that are gonna have the same problem so I have to ask warmoth what size these holes are. Then decide figure it out from there.

[wyliee]

By any chance is there a finish on your neck? If so, the finish will add a few thousandths to the inside diameter of the tuner reams. This can be enough to prevent the bushing from pressing in easily.

You can use some sandpaper to clean out some of the finish. This may be sufficient to allow the bushings to press in.

[ChrisMan123]

yeah I did that to the old neck and the bushings ended up tilting out of the holes a little once string tension was on, so I want to avoid making the holes too big by using sandpaper, cause that little bit of extra room caused them to not fit as snugly as I wanted them to

so this time I'm gonna get better tuners (schallers) that are made to fit my neck holes which I found out from warmoth today that they are 11/16
and if these have a little trouble going in, then I might use sandpaper but hopefully I won't have to. Thanks again.

- Chris