Mounting Schaller locking tuners

[stubhead]

I'd be more inclined to mark the spot by tightening them a little and taking them off than by beating on them with a hammer. I don't have a jig, but I do have drawing tools like graphing rulers:
http://www.office1000.com/discount/rulers-graph.html

You can get very similar items in the sewing department at WalMart, the big 4" X 24" ones are great for laying out control holes, drawing pegheads etc. If you can mark one hole correctly and you have a ruler and a right-angle or small drawing T, you can mark them all.
http://www.office1000.com/data/c-thrurulerco/JR12CTR.html

Check with a little kid's drawing set - Aaak, do little kids even draw anymore, or do they just watch people draw on TV?

 

[Cagey]

I've bought Klusons Grovers Schallers and Planet waves and have yet to get a template. I think thats just wishful thinking. I installed these tuners by placing all of them on the guitar with the bushings and washers installed. Lined them up with a straightedge and just cranked on the bushings with my handy dandy 10 mm racheting wrench. They installed perfectly. The posts seated themselves nicely.

The last set of Sperzels I bought came with both a template and installation instructions, but the last two sets of Schallers did not as they came loose pack rather than retail pack. "Loose pack" is where somebody buys them in bulk and sells them to you individually, rather than in retail packaged sets. Warmoth sells Schallers that way; I don't know about the other brands they sell.

 

[jay4321]

Ahem

The correct way to do this IMHO is to use the groovy Stu-mac tuning machine jig. 

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Jigs/Tuner_Pin_Drill_Jig.html

I've got one.  Used it lots.  Tuners are aligned perfectly.

Same results here. I've used it a half a dozen times already (including for the Schallers, although mine have two studs, not one). If you aren't confident in your precise hole-drilling skills and plan on building more than one guitar just bite the bullet and get it. I thought it was kind of steep for what it was when someone here recommended it to me, but the thing will last a lifetime and just works great.

 

[jay4321]

Now I just have to figure out how to angle the tuning pegs in a LP headstock