Any experience with Hipshot tuner button SK1?

[Logrinn]

Hello everybody,

I am curious if any of you have had any experience with the button SK1 for Hipshot tuners?

I find that it's a tad more difficult tuning with 6 in line tuners on a reversed headstock like on my Super-Sonic. And since I already put the excellent staggered, locking, lefty, vintage-fitting (not easy to find) tuners from Hipshot on the guitar, I am thinking of getting these buttons that might make things easier.

 

[Cagey]

I haven't tried them, but they are attractive. My concern would be that you'd really need to get a good grip on them to turn them due to the lack of leverage a flat button provides. If you're already having trouble turning them as is, I would think a larger button would make it easier, not a smaller one. Especially on heavier strings that need more tension to get to pitch.

 

[Logrinn]

Thank you Cagey for your reply.

I'm afraid I might have given you the wrong idea about me finding it a bit difficult to tune with the small buttons on my 6-in-line reversed headstock, and therefor needing bigger. It's not because they are hard to turn, but rather that the space is a bit cramped. Gripping a tuner and turning it, especially when tuning new strings up to pitch by several turns, sometimes results in my fingers almost getting stuck between the other tuner buttons. Or that I by accident turn a button next to the one I'm tuning.
I find it easier with a nonreversed headstock and even easier on a 3+3 headstock. But it might just be a question of getting used to it, I guess.
Still, I think I will get these buttons, the SK1, and put them on and give you all my opinion on them.
After all, this is a fantastic forum with incredible talented and knowledgeable people, and I hope I can add to it.

All the best.

 

[stratamania]

I think that giving them a try will be the only way to know for sure.  I suspect it may be easier with them due to the lack of leverage to turn to a precise point tuning wise but that's just speculation.

Interested to know what you think when you try them.

 

[Logrinn]

I'm already on it. Just have to find someone that sell these in Sweden and order them. And wait for them to arrive. Then I'll put them on and give them a spin  :laughing7:

 

[stratamania]

If you can't find them in Sweden, try a company in the US called Sporthitech, I've used them a few times for Hipshot stuff to the UK.

 

[Logrinn]

Thanks.
I know of them and actually ordered the Hipshot tuners that I have now from them. So I'll probably order the SK1 buttons from them as well. I had a look around and they seem to be able to help me without breaking the bank.
I tried Hipshot's web store first but it turns out that even though the buttons were only $24 the shipping was an additional $88!
Or $147 depending on type of shipment!

 

[stratamania]

It seems odd but perhaps Hipshot set the prices so the dealers have a better chance of selling.  :dontknow:

 

[Cagey]

Shipping stuff to England is not easy or cheap, and the hits just keep on coming once stuff gets there. You would think that in what is essentially an island nation that imports would be welcome and easy, but the protectionism and taxation is just ridiculous.

 

[ChristopherG]

Which is especially moronic now that British manufacturing is a mere whisper of a shadow of its former self. The protectionism made a kind of sense when you could go out and buy a British version of any damn thing you might import but now it is just taxation for its own sake.

 

[stratamania]

Tuners and decals and stuff like that are relatively inexpensive for shipping and value wise are under the threshold for import taxes.

But necks, bodies, tools, you can easily as a ballpark add another 20%. The thing that gets me is that is added shipping too. Buy a $200 heavy item, and say the shipping is $40 you are charged on the $240. You have not imported the shipping cost just the item but you end up taxed on the total.

Don't forget England  and the rest of the U.K. are part of the European Union, so certain taxes have to be levied to be in line with the rest of Europe. Some places in Europe taxation is far heavier than the UK.

Where I grew up there was some of the finest heavy engineering, ship and bridge building etc. It's virtually all gone. I must say the coaly Tyne is now a fine salmon river once again though.

 

[Logrinn]

Where I grew up there was some of the finest heavy engineering, ship and bridge building etc. It's virtually all gone. I must say the coaly Tyne is now a fine salmon river once again though.

So something good came out of all this. From tuner buttons to clean salmon rivers.  :icon_smile:

 

[stratamania]

So something good came out of all this. From tuner buttons to clean salmon rivers.  :icon_smile:

Indeed clean environments are a good thing.

 

[ChristopherG]

Not to further derail this fine thread, but for all that the UK is tops of the wife's and my list of places to move to when the dear USofA finally gets more moronic than we can handle. Sweden is a close second--the wife and I both dig tall blonds.

 

[Logrinn]

I don't know about tall blondes, but there is one thing we definitely have against us. The weather. We have minus twelve here today in Stockholm. Brrrrrr ...