The majority of vintage tuners come supplied with the correct bushings, usually colour matched to the tuner set for aesthetic equilibrium, as well as screws for mounting. If you’re swapping like for like Vintage Tuners, then again it will probably only require a straight swap with minimal adjustment. You may need to adjust the mounting screw location however, particularly when changing brand of tuner, and you can find more info on that further down the page. This means that you shouldn’t need anything else other than the tuners when swapping modern tuners like for like. Modern Tuners tend to have a nut that goes on the front face of the headstock to hold them in place. Here we’ve outlined what obstacles you can expect to come across when changing your tuners. Installing Guitar TunersĪlthough changing tuners is one of the easier upgrades you can do yourself, there are some potential pitfalls, particularly when you're changing from one tuner type to another.
Sitting at a mid point between ‘bargain’ tuner sets and the more opulent end of the tuner scale, the quality you get for the price you pay is frankly astonishing.
When it comes to tuners you’ll find Gotoh on many intermediate to high-end guitars, and they have rapidly become the *ahem*, go-to for any guitarist looking to improve the stock tuning machines on their instrument. Over the decades since their inception Gotoh have expanded their range to include tuners, bridges & tailpieces, licensed Floyd Rose tremolos, as well as licensed Wilkinson bridges. Steel and nylon bowstrings soon followed before the establishment of a limited company in 1960, where the manufacture of guitar parts began.ĭespite being the only manufacturer of stringed instrument parts in Japan, their constant product development and manufacturing process improvements have given Gotoh a well-earned name in the guitar part game. The History of Gotohįounded in July 1950 by Masao Gotoh, Gotoh began life manufacturing musical strings for violin, alongside a few other ‘gut’ products. A new set of tuners can enhance sustain, bring greater tuning stability, and increase the accuracy of your tuning.
GOTOH VINTAGE LOCKING TUNERS BLUEX UPGRADE
Tuners make a great upgrade for your guitar with a minimum of fuss during installation, particularly if you’re replacing like for like. Combining high quality construction with a very reasonable price, they often find their way onto the guitars of large manufacturers such as Fender, Ibanez, Yamaha, and Martin Guitars to name but a few. Period.Gotoh tuners are one of the most popular items we sell here at Northwest Guitars. That's not what we, guitar lovers, expect from the stereotypically superb German engineering. Overall, I now consider Schaller products as poor quality and not Gibson-friendly, as the whole situation reminds me of Schaller strap locks whose installation on a Gibson guitar is similarly a big problem, especially with the screw in the lower part of the guitar, let alone other well known issues with these locks. Thus, I'm sending back both sets, which to my regret Thomann will have to handle somehow with Schaller.Īnd, quite obviously, I cannot recommend this product because, in my opinion, it is a total fiasco. One of the tuners was outright defective (too loose). Compared to Fender locking tuners, the difference in the tuning stability is huge.Ĥ. Upon installation, all strings did not stay in tune even after a couple of re-adjustments. The 1st E string could not be clamped in position properly and kept creeping out of the lock (as I was turning the tuner to tune up the string, the tone remained the same or even dropped as the string was slipping out of the lock).ģ. So, if you use thicker strings, for sure the low E string would not come through.Ģ. As a result, I could barely put the bass E string into the hole in the tuner (it was a 0.46 gauge). Yet the sting holes remain too low (which is ridiculous given Gibson headstocks are all angled and do not require directing strings downward as Fenders do). Well, this can be to some extent overcome by using Gibson's stock shims instead of the ones that are supplied with the Schaller tuners. The tuners simply don't fit the headstocks of my Gibson guitars (SG, ES, LP): the supplied shims make the position of the string hole too low to the extent that is it partially blocked by the screw nut that holds the tuner. They came in packed in very nice boxes, reminding of a new iPhone. Having read mostly positive reviews, I bought two sets at once. These Schallers at first seemed a perfect choice. I wanted to upgrade stock tuners on some of my Gibson guitars.
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