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Is there a problem with supergluing the machine heads to an acoustic guitar?

Asked by rovdog (842points) August 1st, 2007

I am replacing the machine heads on a old laminant top acoustic guitar. The old machine heads seemed pretty non-standard (with two holes at a diagonal) and while I found similar ones, only one of the previously drilled holes matches up for the screw to go in. I thought I could affix the machine head to the guitar with only one screw, but as it turns out I enlarged one of the holes so now one of the machine heads won't even hold with that screw. To avoid filling and drilling holes-
Can I just superglue the machine heads on? Has anyone tried this?

The other thing I guess I could do would be to drill new holes and put the tuners at an angle but I'm pretty sure this would look weird on an acoustic, plus I'd have to fill the old holes eventually. Maybe not, I guess I've seen acoustics with the machine heads at an angle. I'm just making it into a usable spare guitar, not an art object, but I want to make sure it will hold.

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