Tuning Keys

[Cagey]

Schaller lists a wide variety of finishes for their parts, but good luck trying to get them. I suspect very few of them are production parts. They're just possibilities looking for a fat enough wallet. Not to disparage Schaller - I'm a big fan - but I hate the teasing.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I love schallers locking tuners with the hidden locating pin.  I wanted a set in black for a Tele build.  I found that they existed on Schaller's website.  I called every Schaller dealer in the US to try to get them even if I had to special order them to no avail.  I then opened my search world wide and found a French site that had them.  My dad speaks French and I tried to order them but they wouldn't get back to me.  So I kept searching.  A couple weeks ago I saw them on allparts but they only had left handed one's although the picture was right handed one's.  I called and asked them to look at them and sure enough they were right handed.  They only had one set.  Ordered them right away!  This was a year and a half long search and I don't know if I've ever been so excited opening a package before.


So they do exist out there but sometimes they're HARD to find!

 

[Cagey]

So they do exist out there but sometimes they're HARD to find!

No doubt. Good story.

Somebody else on the board here - Orcrist? - wanted one of their unusual finishes on a full set of hardware a couple/few years ago and had to jump through a number of hoops to get them. I think he ended up having to talk directly to a head honcho at Schaller to get the things made. I shudder to think what he had to pay for it all. But, that attention to detail left him with an award-winning guitar.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

I live in Europe and here there's a supplier I can just call and order any Schaller part in any finish. They'll get here in a week. Prices are the same as just ordering the more available parts online.

 

[bbl4ck]

So they do exist out there but sometimes they're HARD to find!

No doubt. Good story.

Somebody else on the board here - Orcrist? - wanted one of their unusual finishes on a full set of hardware a couple/few years ago and had to jump through a number of hoops to get them. I think he ended up having to talk directly to a head honcho at Schaller to get the things made. I shudder to think what he had to pay for it all. But, that attention to detail left him with an award-winning guitar.

I live in Europe and here there's a supplier I can just call and order any Schaller part in any finish. They'll get here in a week. Prices are the same as just ordering the more available parts online.

Hey Mr. Jumble,

I have had the same experience as Orcrist in trying to find Schaller parts that are clearly posted on their website.
I love their product, but just could not find it available anywhere!

Would you mind giving your dealer a little free publicity and posting or PMing their name and number :dontknow:
I would be happy to order some parts from Europe if I knew they were available.
Thanks for you time and  :rock-on:

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I live in Europe and here there's a supplier I can just call and order any Schaller part in any finish. They'll get here in a week. Prices are the same as just ordering the more available parts online.

Would you mind giving your dealer a little free publicity and posting or PMing their name and number :dontknow:
I would be happy to order some parts from Europe if I knew they were available.
Thanks for you time and  :rock-on:

I 2nd (and 3rd that) - Please oh please!!!!  I have literally spent the last year and a half trying to find someone (anyone) anywhere in the world that I could get these black tuners from and couldn't find anyone until now (and only one).  I'm sure I'll be looking for others in the future because I love what Schaller has to offer and I'd be happy to order from Europe if I need to.

-Steve

 

[swarfrat]

Ditto. They make a top lock tuner with a straight leg screw hole i tried to get.

Allparts seems to be the  only distributor here willing to order funky schaller parts, and their pricing and lead time make me suspect they're waiting for Oleg to go home to see his Opa, which is every other christmas and even year oktoberfests, and oh by the way, you're paying his plane ticket.

 

[mullyman]

If there is anything on this site that someone would like just let me know. I've ordered from this place dozens of times so I can vouch that it's a good site.
MULLY

The prices are in Japanese Yen.

http://www.soundhouse.co.jp/shop/SearchList.asp?s_maker_cd=&s_category_cd=&s_mid_category_cd=&s_large_category_cd=12&s_product_cd=&search_all=schaller&sSeriesCd=&sPriceFrom=0&sPriceTo=9999999&i_type=s&i_sub_type=&i_page=&i_sort=&i_page_size=30&i_ListType=type1

 

[stubhead]

I want. But it's another thing I won't buy, just because I want it... I try to have at least two reasons to buy something. I may NEED them later, who can tell though? :dontknow:

 

[mullyman]

I want. But it's another thing I won't buy, just because I want it... I try to have at least two reasons to buy something. I may NEED them later, who can tell though? :dontknow:

You need 2 reasons?
1. They look cool.
2. Spending helps stimulate the economy.

MULLY
:headbang1:

 

[stubhead]

Like, I really need an over-stimulated economy right when I'm broke too... :sad1:

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Here's where I get the Schaller stuff from:

http://www.thomann.de

They don't list everything on the site but if you drop them an email, they will order anything you want straight from Schaller. I specced out an entire LP in the Vintage Copper finish and got a good quote from them. They even pointed out that I didn't need to buy the tuners and the keystone buttons: I could just order the tunres with keystones to begin with.

 

[JaySwear]

Stringing up the old Floyded guitar I had, I would put the ball end of the strings at the headstock end anyway. Much less turning of the tuner keys. Get them if you like the look! I'd probably go with boring standard tuners since it would have a locking nut anyway. They do look great though.

 

[mullyman]

Stringing up the old Floyded guitar I had, I would put the ball end of the strings at the headstock end anyway. Much less turning of the tuner keys. Get them if you like the look! I'd probably go with boring standard tuners since it would have a locking nut anyway. They do look great though.

I saw Eddie Van Halen's guitar back around 98 or so and he had his strung backwards like that. Being the nut fan that I am I started doing the same thing. If not just for the look it also totally erased any chance of jamming a string into your finger etc... I still do that on my Music Man but my other guitars all have locking tuners so they get the standard treatment.

You know, there seemed to be a fad around the turn of the century there where people were stringing up guitars and leaving the excess string hanging off from the keys. That drove me insane.
MULLY

 

[bbl4ck]

You know, there seemed to be a fad around the turn of the century there where people were stringing up guitars and leaving the excess string hanging off from the keys. That drove me insane.
MULLY

Yea, I just saw a very recent video of Paul McCartney playing with his guitar strung up like that. The excess for each string was wound up in a little coil instead of being cut off.  I don't get it :dontknow:

 

[alterbridgefan]

You know, there seemed to be a fad around the turn of the century there where people were stringing up guitars and leaving the excess string hanging off from the keys. That drove me insane.
MULLY

Yea, I just saw a very recent video of Paul McCartney playing with his guitar strung up like that. The excess for each string was wound up in a little coil instead of being cut off.  I don't get it :dontknow:

Easy? No teeth required? :cool01:

 

[-CB-]

What?  Is it me?  Am I the only one happy with plain ol' vintage style Gotoh tuners?

 

[Cagey]

I doubt it. I still see them. Particularly on OEM instruments where they're loathe to spend an extra nickel on any aspect of the guitar. I know I was happy with them for a long time. They beat the snot out of Klusons. But, then they invented high-ratio lockers, effectively obsoleting them and locking nuts.

 

[AutoBat]

You know, there seemed to be a fad around the turn of the century there where people were stringing up guitars and leaving the excess string hanging off from the keys. That drove me insane.
MULLY

Actually I did that all through my first stent in college because I didn't own anything capable of cutting wire.

 

[stubhead]

Believe it or not, back in the Dark Ages like the 70's it wasn't considered a requirement that your mommy & daddy buy you guitars and cars and computers and amps and strings and stuff. And even college students used to be poor sometimes! It was ghastly, and now you can understand why so many old people are so emotionally crippled, Junior. Imagine - having to earn your own money to pay for stuff! 

But - if you kept the rest of the string around, and it broke at the bridge - Stratocasters were designed by Leo Fender to do just that, because Fender sold strings too* - our intrepid pioneers could often knot it to the bridge somehow and get back rockin', if the black plague or the Vikings hadn't got you by then. Sometimes the little twisty part of the string that had been going through the tuner the first time around ended up at the 2nd or 3rd fret, just grin and bear it cowboy - it saved you the cost of a ring modulator anyways. And it was still better than when they broke the second time and you had to play with knots in 'em. Drugs....


*(and you tykes thought the razor & printer companies pioneered that? Hell, the rocks for your pterodactyl slingshot cost more than that!)