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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The set on the uglyduck shinybowl are original and more than 40 years old and still work perfectly and look just fine. I just know this guitar has had its ass played-off and the tuners are spot-on... there's something to be said for that kinda quality...
and they're cool lookin'... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | They were the shit back when. Then they lost it and Schaller came on strong. Now they are sliding and someone else is having their time in the sun.
The new Grovers are made by Gotoh I believe, I put a set of Imperials on the Opry. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | JW, I still have the original WR POS tuners if you need them for anything?
Maybe drop a few in Cliff's S... I'll pm you later. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Wow Woodster, I fiqured those would've been assimilated into some super-secret Woody Prototype... but, then again...
I'm not nuts enough to drop anything into Cliff's S...
but, I do know someone who is... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I remember meeting THE Mr. Schaller back in the old days in Moosup. He was an older gentleman (seemed ancient to the twenty-something me) and had such a thick German accent it was hard to understand him. And I remember I was fool enough to tell him that although I liked Schallers a lot, I was a Grover person, because that is what my Gibson had. What an idiot I was when I was young! (Now I'm an old idiot.) |
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Location: NJ | ". . I'm not nuts enough to drop anything into Cliff's S...
but, I do know someone who is... . ."
long as it's not confetti . . . |
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Location: Scotland | Grover pretty much invented the modern sealed tuner with the Rotomatic, and the early stuff is superb. The current production is patchy at best. Schaller did it better and are still among the best, but there's a ton of imported junk not nearly as good but a lot cheaper, so they will eventually become the consumer benchmark. The fact is a really well made simple open-geared tuner, such as the Waverley, is better than them all, and weighs less. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ... to be clear, I'm speaking to the vintage Roto's on my ShinyBowl... not subsequent (thus latter) iterations with which, I have little exposure...
(except the ones on my Hamer, they're good too...) |
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Location: Scotland | The Rotos on my '68 Shiny DB are great too, and I much prefer the way nickel plating ages gracefully, in exactly the same way that chrome plating doesn't. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | yes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | agreed |
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In praise of Grover RotoMatics...
