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Post subject: Tuning Machines for Jazzmaster
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 12:03 pm
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Hello All,
Has anyone swapped out the stock tuning machines on a Classic Player Jazzmaster Special(Mexico, 2016) for currently available locking Fender units? First of all, do they fit? And if so, is it a clean change over with no holes showing on the back of the head stock?
Thank you in advance.


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Post subject: Re: Tuning Machines for Jazzmaster
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 5:41 pm
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Frankie Pots&Pans wrote:
Hello All,
Has anyone swapped out the stock tuning machines on a Classic Player Jazzmaster Special(Mexico, 2016) for currently available locking Fender units? First of all, do they fit? And if so, is it a clean change over with no holes showing on the back of the head stock?
Thank you in advance.


Since your CP Jazzmaster has vintage-style locking tuners the Fender Deluxe Locking tuners will not fit it without modifications - you will need to enlarge the holes for the tuner post, and you will need to drill 2 shallow holes in the back of the headstock for the mounting pins for each tuner. And you will have the holes showing from the vintage tuners.

What I suggest are getting Gotoh vintage-style locking tuners. Gotoh currently makes 2 styles - one style (which has been around for 15+ years now) is the "Self-Locking" style where you pull the string through the hole in the tuner and wind it quickly; as it winds it "captures" the string inside the post. They also brought out a second style of tuner about a year ago now called the "Magnum" that has the thumbwheel on the back and work like the Fender Deluxe Locking Tuners (or Schaller locking tuners, or Sperzel locking tuners, etc.). Just to confuse things Gotoh used to call the self-locking tuners "Magnum"; now they call the thumbwheel style "Magnum".

Here's a link to the self-locking version at Stew-Mac:

http://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and_Par ... uners.html

Magnum/wheel style on Reverb.com:

https://reverb.com/item/1273004-gotoh-s ... aQodSnUNRg

The third option is to use Hipshot tuners and get their conversion plate - the plate fits the vintage holes, and you install the modern tuners on the plate. Not sure if you have to rout the main holes larger.


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