Tuners to fit late 70's Precision neck

[Beedster]

Hi all
I'm after some of the above. Can I buy new any that will fit directly without any drilling? I've been sold two pairs of what were described as 'Fender reissue' tuners on BC and neither set fitted the previous 70's neck I owned.
Chris

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[url="http://www.guitarpartsresource.com"]<a href="http://www.guitarpartsresource.com" target="_blank">http://www.guitarpartsresource.com[/url]</a> have loads of different ones.

Did the ones you bought look like this with the fender logo?


My '81 P has tuners identical to these - I fitted a hipshot D-tuner to it with no drilling so the hipshots would work as well


Unless its an [s]early 70s [/s] 50s or 60s neck in which case you'd need the reverse type which I believe were phased out around 1966 (I'll check my books later when I get home)


or was it the reverse ones (with rivets) you bought that didn't fit?

Edited November 23, 2007 by Jean-Luc Pickguard

[Beedster]

Hey Jean-Luc, amny thanks mate, that's really helpful (and comprehensive). When you say 'ricets' in relation to the reverse tuners, are you refering to the fact that these need a slight modification to the back of the headstock to be accomodated (i.e., a shallow cresent shaped route under each tuner)?
Cheers
Chris

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[quote name='Beedster' post='93248' date='Nov 23 2007, 11:35 AM']When you say 'ricets' in relation to the reverse tuners, are you refering to the fact that these need a slight modification to the back of the headstock to be accomodated (i.e., a shallow cresent shaped route under each tuner)?
Cheers
Chris[/quote]
No, what I meant was that the elephant ear bit of each tuner is held onto the shaft by a rivet which makes the reverse ones easy to spot from a distance (also the "ear" isn't quite as big on those so the shaft appears a bit longer).

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Just realised I had a bit of a brainfart when I posted my first reply - Of course the riveted ones were used on the earliest 50s & 60s basses and were phased out in the mid 60s, so they wouldn't be on any 70s basses - I'll go back up & edit that post if I can.