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Todd,

I can tell you from experience that cutting tuners for 10-string classicals is a common practice. Not butchery at all. When done right, the cut lines barely show. So if you're not happy with the 6-on-a-plate offerings you might uncover, I would say go ahead and cut. Of course, you guys in the slot-head steel-string world have options for single tuner sets of high quality that we who build classicals do not.

Reminds me, though -- a while back I found an outfit that did make single classical tuners of decent quality, and as I recall it was a Dutch company. I haven't been able to find a URL for them, though. Do you happen to know if this outfit has a website? Maybe they're the ones I found and then lost when my browser decided to dump my bookmark file

Best,

Michael

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What I've seen of van Gent tuners has been quite low quality. I think they may have a higher quality line, but I doubt that's what you'd get from National.

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Todd Rose
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I used the National "6 on a plate" tuners on a recent build and while their not Waverly's by any stretch, they weren't bad either. They tune the guitar and it stays in tune pretty well. They are the ones pictured in my avatar. I liked them because they look pretty vintage and not too fancy.

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