Just out of interest - was there something wrong with the tuners or the nut or why do you want to replace them?
Yeah. The existing nut is a replacement that just doesn’t look like its seated very well. The tuners ae original and known to be weak. They’re certainly functional and tuning stability is pretty good but they could be better and that should hopefully help with intonation which is slightly off and difficult to dial in.
Given the guitar is not all original my thinking is to upgrade stuff thats easily achievablle by me.
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Like the standard of your posts. 
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It’s a joke.
Anyone who promotes live music and playing of instruments…I have a lot of time for them. We need more singer songwriter guitarist types to counter pop music produced by the same one or two producers.
It’s fashionable to shit on Metallica nowadays and while some of it is warranted (way overpriced gimmicky shows, sub-par recent songwriting, Kirk’s lazy solos, Lars…), way back when they were an awesome thrash metal band that inspired me to pick up the guitar at the age of 16 after listening to Ride The Lightning.
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FiFY.
Metallica’s first 4 albums are awesome. It’s just the cash grab attempts after that make them cringe.
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Glad you think its an easy fix
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I was lucky with the pickups in my guitars (even the passive Schecter Passadena/Sunset Strip pickups now have considerably less hum for reasons unknown) but I wasn’t always lucky with nuts and bolts, pun intended.
On my very first electric, I had the plastic nut replaced with a bone nut - suddenly, the fourth string could stay in tune for much longer and no longer had the echo it came with, for want of a better word, after being strummed.
I had Earvana installed in my Schecter Solo-II and I later also noticed that those little “worm screws” that pin the bridge to the posts were missing - the combination of Earvana and them made the tuning stability insane, and I tried E, Eb and D standard for prolonged periods on it afterwards.
That said, all of the electric guitars that I ever owned came with locking tuners (Grover, Schecter or LTD) and I have the impression that they also help the tuning stability, not just make the change of strings easier. Maybe you could look into installing them as well at some point (looking at the pictures, I think you don’t have locking ones on this guitar).
Precisely - this is the type of band that I can swear will never exist again, i.e. the one that makes unfashionable music, takes it to stratospheric levels in terms of popularity and inspires kids to take up some instrument found in that band. True, after Black album, and not considering cover songs, they have released less good songs than majority of bands that I listen to have released good albums but the well has well and truly dried, I guess… I’m still waiting for them to play Astronomy live, though.
Also, Hetfield is one of three main reasons why I want to learn to play the guitar (Cantrell and Tipton being the other two), even belatedly. I was twice your age when I picked it up for the first time but I guess I wasn’t persistent enough with my parents when I was a teenager.
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Joys of buying a 40 year old guitar I guess. Inevitable that some things will have been changed.
I’ve had a little look into tuners and i dont think you can get locking tuners in the les paul style tuner i.e. square backed ones. I do need to look into it further and measure up properly. I want a straight swap with no new holes to drill etc.
A big change will come with new pots i think. The ones in it are mini 500k ones but rolling off the volume doesnt clean up the tone as well as I’d like.
But its a comfortable and fun guitar to play so its been a good purchase. I should really give it a full fret polish etc. too.
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My daughter, now 21, asked for a guitar a few years ago because of Taylor Swift. As a dad (not because I especially loved the music) I learned some of the songs and taught my daughter, who has a really good voice.
They were easy enough, boppy sort of stuff, lots of syncopated strumming, and dampening of the strings. You have to be able to play a bit to play them, but the beauty is you can also do a decent ish version as a beginner, learning a few chords like my daughter.
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Speed it up a bit, add a good overdrive pedal with decent gain and you’ve got yourself a thrash metal guitarist right in your home!
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Makes sense. Obviously the Gibson headstock broke immediately.
Yeah, I know. Ba dum tss
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My middle daughter (now 13) started learning the bass last year. Part inspired by me and part inspired by Immigrant Song by Led Zep (from watching Thor: Ragnarok). Her teacher is an 78 year old Mancunian named Rodney.
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Love to hear it!
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I love the Black album. I dont think they wrote a cash grab album they just evolved a bit. I mean it made them and sold millions but I dont think they expected it to sell nearly 30m copies.
It took their music to people who wouldnt normally listen to them and then their kids have probably picked it up and so on and thats a good thing - the amount of younger people at their gigs is amazing.
Good point. My daughter picks up my guitar sometimes and has learnt a few Swift songs - they are catchy and just use the basic cowboy chords. The other day she was learning If i had a gun by Noel Gallagher - again simple but excellent music and perfect for a beginner,
Theres me at 14 picking up a guitar and expecting to bash out Sweet Child of Mine after half hour…
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