vintage locking tuners

[Paul-less]

If you can't bend with a 7.5 radius, your action is too low. I've never had a problem bending any 7.5 teles, and I like a lower action...

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Most old 7,25" necks have their frets dressed to a compound 9,5" or around that. So they are "bendable" ... but not really 7,25" pr. se.

 

[B3Guy]

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/archive/index.php/t-649441.html

these folks seem to like them, and they've used them.

True, most everyone out there on other forums is bashing them. At the same time most of the bashers have never actually tried them. And they are either  "Fender Groupies" (there are many of these saying BS like "the real vintage Klusons are just as good as any locking tuner"), or part of the "why do you give a crap about how it looks" crowd who wants you to use Sperzels. (Not bashing the Sperzels, BTW.)

you say people usually only talk positively about their purchases, but how the crap is one supposed to fairly give any useful review on a product without buying it? As far as I'm concerned, if you haven't tried them in your day-to-day guitar life, you haven't really tried them out properly enough to reach a fair verdict.

oh, and I bought casters for my organ the other day . . . not sure what to say, but it sure as heck won't be anything positive.

 

[Cagey]

What's wrong with your casters? Too small?

 

[mayfly]

Yeah, the tuner thing is nuts - I remember when people bought a brand-new Strat or Les Paul, the first thing you did was throw away the Klusons and drill 'em out for Schallers or Grovers. Now they make bushings so that you can throw away your good tuners and restore it to the original crap standards. I have a Warmoth Mustang that's a great guitar, but it's great because of the big frets, the hardtail string-though bridge, the great Lawrence pickups and the tone & volume controls for each - when Fender re-released the Mustang, they copied everything that was goinked about the original! I can make a list of a dozen things wrong with a true, vintage Strat - those real frets were tiny, nobody who plays an old Strat wants to admit it because they've ALL "ruined" their guitar by putting playable frets on it. And a 7.5" radius is useless for bending, which is why so very many of the "great old Strats" and "'53 Teles" you see are friggin' FAKES - because they're playable! Oh well, wait'll they put ME in charge, you'll see some REAL changes blah blah, bzzt - thud.

oh oh - you speak the truth my friend.  I did the same thing to my old les paul - put some real tuners on it and tossed the Klusons (well, tossed them in the case). 

And those great old guitars from the 50's?  Every REAL one that I've held in my hands was pretty much used up as an instrument.  And my buddy who has a re-issue 50's fender tele complains all the time how hard the thing is to play (wow - no kidding!).  The cool thing is that every time he comes into my office at work, the plays my warmoth 8-ball tele and always says "this is a really fine instrument..."  :headbang:

Thank you warmoth.  I really mean it.  You've elevated me as a player, put proper tools in my hands, gave me better one, and made me look cool as well.  Thank you.

 

[Steve_Karl]

I hve to stand with Cagey on this, what you can get in a modern tuner makes the vintage stuff look like pegs in wood

LOL
"pegs in wood" ... priceless !

 

[Mor Paul]

 

[B3Guy]

What's wrong with your casters? Too small?

lol, yeah. and they were advertised on a bunch of Hammond sites, too.

oh, and don't be dissing the pegs in wood, my sister uses those

 

[Cagey]

What's wrong with your casters? Too small?

lol, yeah. and they were advertised on a bunch of Hammond sites, too.

oh, and don't be dissing the pegs in wood, my sister uses those

Maybe what you need is a dolly, rather than casters on your organ. Proper-sized casters for travelling around are always big, otherwise they hang up on every little defect they encounter, sometimes making you tip over what you're moving. But, if you put big casters on a keyboard, the thing ends up sitting too high.

 

[B3Guy]

roll-or-kari dollies run like $400, which I don't have right now, and I need wheels quick. So, I'm building a frame with 4 2" wheels that the thing can sit on top of. should work decent, until I can afford to chop my M3 into a road case.