![]() ![]() ![]() Recently, a friend asked me along to do a brief gig, during which we played a lot of Goo Goo Dolls songs. I like the fact that you have a complete bank to fill with your own tunings. I will get into this lack of choice later on. But I just try to make the most out of it, since I couldn't buy the guitars without the system to begin with. I view the Min-Etune as a comfort feature, and I use it accordingly. And frankly, I'd much rather strum all the strings and let the Min-ETune system do it for me when I have to go from Standard-E to open-G or DADGAD. Therefore, I am not the best when it comes to tuning. I always relied on a Chromatic Boss pedal for tuning, so I am naturally not great at tuning guitars quickly on the ear alone. Bear in mind, I'm not a professional musician or super skilled. Now, I don't need to have as many guitars.Īs I said before, the Min-Etune allows me to have one guitar and I can play all night or day on it. For instance, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir was always quite difficult for me to do, because I didn't have three guitars. I am more prone to search for songs in certain tunings, versus before when I was more restricted. Now, I am more into alternate tunings then ever. I have always been a massive fan of slide-tunings like open-G and open-E, and I'd have one guitar tuned to that tuning, whilst my main guitar (Strat) was tuned to a standard-E tuning. Therefore, I couldn't play certain songs anymore. Before I bought my Gibsons, I only had a single Fender Stratocaster at one point, thanks to another Fender getting destroyed at a gig. If personally found it opened up options for me to do a lot more songs, because I don't need to have multiple guitars. Min-Etune makes life a lot easier when it comes to alternate tunings. My Gibson guitars are both Standards from this year, so they both have Min-Etune.which I'd like to discuss here. Needless to say, I am very happy with what I got. I thought to myself, "I don't know what Gibson is turning towards, but I need to get my les Paul right here and now." I dislike all the extra bells and whistles of the 2015 guitars, so I made a decision to get the Les Paul (Heritage Cherry Sunburst), as well. Soon after I bought my SG, I started to see the line-up of 2015, and I hated it. Awesome guitar, that just fit me like a glove. I will briefly talk about my Gibson guitars, and then I will into the Min-Etune system.įirst, I bought the briljant SG in the classic Heritage Cherry finish. This is my very first thread, aside from my introduction. I selected a drill bit which was the same size or with a smaller diameter then the shaft of the screws.I just joined the Gibson forum a few days ago and my English sucks, so bear with me. I then marked the locating for the pilot holes (I actually ended up drilling with the machine heads still on) I just pushed the pegs all the way through, loosely fitting the nuts and washers at the front, and lined up the machine heads until I was happy they were straight. This is what you're left with once it's been removedįirst step was to provisionally fit all the machine heads for alignment So once I got to the last peg, I had to hold the Min-ETune unit to prevent it from falling off This is the only thing holding on the machine heads and the Min-ETune unit. I then carefully unfastened the nuts on the tuner pegs at the front of the headstock Strings off, along with the bridge and saddles They will screw all the way off so you have to be careful not to lose them The nuts which clamp the strings in place have to be unscrewed a little to remove the strings I prepared by unwinding the strings as per the user manual for the Min-ETune. (The Min-ETune tuners do not use screws). The only drilling required is for the pilot holes for the screws of the new machine heads. The headstock holes for the pegs of the machine heads are a standard Gibson size (roughly 10mm diameter) and will take standard Gibson machine heads. It was a simple process which required no reaming. Here are a few photos showing how I replaced the Min-ETune unit and machine heads on my 2014 SG Standard. ![]()
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