1958 D-100 tuner photos
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hansmoust
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monadog said:
Hello Monadog,
Welcome! To the best of my knowledge there's no such thing as a D-100 from 1958. Can you check if this is a typo?
Are you talking about a T-100 o maybe a CE-100?
Maybe you could let us know.
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl
hansmoust
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monadog said:
Is this clear enough?
I've seen a few other machineheads on T-100s from this particular period, but the Waverly tuners were used the most.
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl
monadog said:
It's my understanding that nobody's made tuners with this footprint for quite some time. Vintage Grovers and Klusons are being reproduced by several companies, (including Waverly!), but nobody's making these that I know of. As a consequence, I'm afraid usable vintage ones will be costly.
I'm pretty sure I spy two sets of them in this lot of tuners on eBay. One set looks complete with a bent shaft on one tuner, the other set is missing gears and tuning posts for 4 of the 6 tuners. Neither set has the tuner buttons in place. They look scuzzy but you might have enough parts b/w the two sets to make a functional set of tuners and you can buy replacement buttons from a place like Stewart MacDonald, though they'll be plastic...
Now, depending on your situation, you might be better off forgetting this, lol. If yours have already been replaced w/ something else, I'd be inclined to live with what's there now, or if the Grovers/Shallers/etc. on it are worn out, replace them w/ new versions of the same. On the other hand, if you have a guitar in pieces that's missing tuners but has never had a different set on it, it's really tough to be the first person to drill extra holes in a vintage guitar...
[EDIT/Update]. Looks like there is something new on the market. I'd snag some of these if I were you. Price is reasonable, footprint looks right, but plastic buttons and a fancier patter on the base plates... Still, they ought to work much better than a scrounged up set of half-shot vintage ones.
Walter Broes
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I wouldn't spend money on vintage Waverly tuners, except maybe to restore a top-dollar vintage guitar before selling it - for any other purpose, they're really not that great at all.