Installing the Tuners

The main job I did on the guitar is installing the tuners into the headstock. But before I come to that first to the position dots. They point out where the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th.15th, 17th, 19th and 21st fret are located. They are embedded into the side of the fret board. I go for wooden dots. First I had to mark the center between the frets:

Then the center is drilled with a 3mm drill.

After that little sticks of wood are glued in:

And sanded back:

Back to the tuners. I need to drill 10mm holes into the headstock but of course first figure where. The back of the tuners is about 2.3cm so I need about 14cm distribution space. I drew out where they should come:

I want to drill the holes with a drill-press but it is hard to aim the drill since it has some natural tollerance which can result in a slightly off place hole. So I drilled the holes to about 3mm with a cordless drill to have a start for drill-press:

 The holes are then drilled through with the drill press:

The tuner near the nut was positioned just on top of where the headstock gets thicker so I needed to embed it into the headstock:

  The end result:

Last thing I did was gluing in a support brace for the bridge: