4004 tuner story

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pdusen
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4004 tuner story

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So I ordered a Drop-D tuner for my new 4004, just like I have on all of my other basses. Installing that went fine, but while I was putting new strings on the thing, the high G-string tuner fell apart on me (from what I could tell, something about the turning mechanism inside just broke apart).

I ordered a replacement but I was worried the neck would warp with only 3/4 the string tension on it for a week or two.

So as an experiment, I decided to try and put the old E-string tuner that I had removed into the G-string's slot, just to hold the string in place temporarily
It worked surprisingly well.
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Obviously it doesn't look right, but it fit fine, it holds the string and it turns freely, so that worked out pretty well.
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Re: 4004 tuner story

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Someone watched MacGyver as a kid!

Well done!!!
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