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meddlingfool
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:25 pm 
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Is there such a beast as nickel open back tuners with a brass gear and real ebony knobs? Could live without brass gear...
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Clay S.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:32 pm 
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Stew mac sells Waverly tuners that are nickel with a brass gear and ebony knobs.
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Tom West
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Ed: Look in the tutorial section for the Chris Paulick info on taking the regular knobs off Grover Sta-Tites and replacing them with ebony knobs.
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I think the hardest part of that combination is the real ebony button. Waverly is the only tuner I know of that can be bought with a stock ebony button, but that is the high end of the price range. Second best option would probably be Gotoh's with the synthetic button.

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Schertler tuners have real Ebony knobs. Rubner also have an Ebony knob option, but they mostly make classical tuners, their steel string offerings are somewhat limited.
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LMII has open back tuners with a brass gear. I don't think they have an ebony knob. I have used several sets and they nice and reasonably priced.
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We're going Schertlwr...
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meddlingfool wrote:
We're going Schertlwr...


Forgot about those. Nice tuners...

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Are they making Schertlers in nickel now? Does the post bear on an aluminum plate?
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