| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
| Total number of notes: | 61432 |
I've got a vintage Gibson HummingBird that I'm having machine head
problems with; specifically, the peg seems to be stripped, so I
get almost no tension on the string. Anybody have any experience,
words of wisdom, etc. relating to machine heads on a guitar ?
Jim
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2548.1 | Depends | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Black Sheets Of Rain | Tue Jul 07 1992 14:42 | 6 |
Personally, I like the sealed ones myself. Grover, Gotoh, Sperzel,
Schaller all make them. You can get the vintage reproductions too.
I guess the deciding factor would be how collectable your guitar is. I
wouldn't do anything that'd decrease it's value.
Greg
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| 2548.2 | tighten up | DABEAN::LOUVAT | Tue Jul 07 1992 15:01 | 7 | |
In my humble opinion, if you like the guitar and want to keep its value
up, try to get, as mentioned in .1, some re-issue type machine heads.
However, if it were my guitar, and what's not to like....Humming Bird..
.., I'd want the best machine heads I could get to replace the ones
on there in as much as they're probably reaching an age that they may
all give you some problems. For my money Spertzel is #1. There are
other good machine heads.(see .1)
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