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Originally Posted by goog64
Yes, I did quite a bit of research into tuners. These mini grovers were on a couple of lists of the lightest tuners around, so I figured that removing the back covers and replacing the heavy knobs with plastic would be enough.
And the neck attachment bolt is definitely the heaviest replaceable item.
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You are not wrong. I recently sold a set of the proprietary Journey locking tuners that has an extra part in the locking wheel. In my curiosity I weighed them on my cooking scale, and even at that they still weighed several grams less than the Gotoh minis my OF660 is now sporting. The Grover minis are very light and your modifications will make them even lighter.
That is great news about a unibody! I don't think their RT660 had the success that the OF660 did for Journey. Did you get the impression it would be like a neck through thing like Composite Acoustics and Emerald?