I'm not a gear head by nature and have never been into the tuner fetish thing. The ultimate fetish were the tuners that were posted on here that cost...
It can be used but might have one BIG problem: Significant shrinkage. Shrinkage: Radial: 5.6%, Tangential: 10.1%, Volumetric: 17.6%, T/R Ratio: 1.8....
Well, when luthiers try to communicate and they are using different units. For instance on my top thickness I like decimal Imperial as in 0.080 inch...