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Topic: Very Cool Tuner Machine |
Bo Borland
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 7:42 am |
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A Tuner machine with a built in crank.. never saw one before.
From a post by Ben Elder.. I would love to have these on my instruments.. I think...
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Gary Patterson
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Gallatin, TN
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 9:40 am
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| According to a Gibson catalog I have from sometime in the 80s these appear to have been standard equipment for Gibson at the time. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 11:31 am
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i have a nickel chrome set of these on a Gibson BR6
i got them off ebay - they came from China
the little handles that swivel out have a tendency to drop out on the ground
so........
i never saw Gibson tulip tuners just like these even though i did have regular chrome tulips by Grover for Gibson from the mid 70s
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Bo Borland
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 11:49 am
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| Crowbear, they do look like they were designed to fall off. |
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Curt Langston
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 12:48 pm
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| My experience is that they are cheaply made and will crack at the pin. A good idea in theory but really a gimmick. |
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Leon Campbell
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Texas, USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 1:09 pm
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| I have my son's Gibson Les Paul with gold plated tuners with the cranks and he or I have had no problems with them. Thanks, Leon |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 2:29 pm
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The housing of the ones in the picture look an awful lot like the OEM tuners that Schaller was supplying to Gibson, Fender and who knows who else. I would be more surprised if there weren't several different variants from different sources than if there were. If the tuner button and swing-out lever were made from a decent gauge of steel and the hinge pins were properly set, there's be little reason to think they'd fail. And if they were a cheap potmetal imitation...
I'll go out on a limb and say that most of the cheap potmetal stuff from China is/was an imitation of a sturdier original design. Though, in recent years they've been graduating people with engineering and physics degrees at a rate of 40 Chinese to every 1 American. (In India it's 25 to 1.) And having seen how successful the Japanese have been with design, it's their stated goal to move that way themselves, away from imitation. |
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Larry Moore
From:
Hampton, Ga. USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2011 5:54 pm 1981 Gibson LP Custom
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I have a 81 LP Custom with these tuners and have not had a problem, I only use them when I change stings and wind them up and then fold them down and tune the string to pitch.
Good Idea 
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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