Full or mini Grovers?

[Graffiti62]

Hi everybody--

I have a question in regards to a build I am doing. I am doing up a Tele, and I am going to go with Grover tuners. I put them on my acoustic guitars over the years, and I've liked them. The only concern I have is which size to go with. Has anyone else worked with Grovers on a Tele or Strat before, and can tell me any pros/cons to each size that they found?

Thanks in advance!

 

[tfarny]

I would imagine you'll need the minis, because six on a side leaves a lot less room for the full-sized ones.
Grovers are nice but other tuners are good too, the locking schallers that warmoth sells are great and reasonably priced, and the gotoh sg38 tuners are as good as grovers I think, and cost less, if you don't require locking tuners. Lots of good tuners out there. Personally, I think grovers on a tele would look a little weird. I associate them with Gibson and acoustics.

 

[stubhead]

I used to be latched onto Grovers, but they have recently began producing them in China, by Ping to be exact. However, even the name-branded Ping tuners are better than the new Grovers - I have a set that had to have one immediately replaced out of six, and two more are going crunchy (since mid-2005). There are a bunch of people with older guitars who are quite peeved that they now have to search out specifically-old Grovers when they need a new one. Sure, Grover will send you a free new-new, crappy tuner when your old-new crappy tuner bites the dust, after you mail the old-new one back - six weeks with a five-string guitar, then the anxious wait for the crunchies to start up again....

They've trashed the name of another great American company for a quick short-term gain, tra la.  :icon_tongue:

(Hint: Schaller, Gotoh, Planet Waves, Sperzel....) :redflag:

 

[Graffiti62]

I think I may actually put Schallers on it after reading what you guys have stated. Andy Summers put those on his Tele, and I'm kind of using his famous beat-up bastardized sunburst as at least a little of an inspiration.

Thanks guys!

 

[dbw]

I used to be latched onto Grovers, but they have recently began producing them in China, by Ping to be exact. However, even the name-branded Ping tuners are better than the new Grovers - I have a set that had to have one immediately replaced out of six, and two more are going crunchy (since mid-2005). There are a bunch of people with older guitars who are quite peeved that they now have to search out specifically-old Grovers when they need a new one. Sure, Grover will send you a free new-new, crappy tuner when your old-new crappy tuner bites the dust, after you mail the old-new one back - six weeks with a five-string guitar, then the anxious wait for the crunchies to start up again....

They've trashed the name of another great American company for a quick short-term gain, tra la.  :icon_tongue:

(Hint: Schaller, Gotoh, Planet Waves, Sperzel....) :redflag:

Schaller is German... but I see your point.  :sad1:

Of course, a 5-string guitar isn't all bad... Buzzo from the Melvins plays an LP Custom with no high E.  On the other hand, most of us aren't sludge-metal legends so we like having all six.  :laughing7: