Martin Slotted Headstock Tuners

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Martin slotted headstock tuners. One with a solid another with a slotted headstock and the factory workers preferred the audibly different sounding slotted version. With these headstocks, tuners are built into the holes. It also includes the eight slot headed mounting screws.

This version was known as the fern. Sort of like spoke wheels on a harley, slotted headstocks just add a special something to certain guitars, and takamine is happy to offer some of the best. When i was a kid (a long time ago) i didn't care for the looks of the slots as they looked too much like nylon string guitars, which i didn't care for at the time either.

Martin guitars martin guitars produced from 1833 to 1929, with necks built with 12 frets clear of the body, generally have one of three styles of tuners: 5 out of 5 customer rating. The story goes that two prototypes of this model were made.

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Enclosed tuners on a stauffer style headstock, ebony or ivory pegs on a solid headstock, or geared machines designed to fit a slotted style headstock. Martin guitars produced from 1833 to 1929, with necks built with 12 frets clear of the body, generally have one of three styles of tuners: 1930s strip tuners, likely made by waverly but not marked, for slotted headstock with 'fluer de lis' plate engraving.

Some will swear that it results in better tone, and tuning stability as it ‘increases the tension’. Over 40 years later, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most respected sellers of new, used, and vintage fretted instruments.learn more Enclosed tuners on a stauffer style headstock, ebony or ivory pegs on a solid headstock, or geared machines designed to fit a slotted style headstock.

Mandolin cafe forum > instruments and equipment > builders and repair > tuners for slotted headstock. Slotted headstocks are often associated with vintage guitars, and many of those instruments come from eras when the materials, machining tolerances, and overall quality of tuners was substantially lower than today’s. The torch still appeared on slotted headstock martins and a few special order 14 fret guitars.

I would suggest the evidence in support of that claim is underwhelming and maintain that the angle of the headstock is a more important. Finally—tuners themselves have come a long way over the years. However, an alternative is a slotted headstock.

This was followed by #9488, which had another version of the fern: I do not know what brand these. Satisfy your desire with an affordable solid wood guitar that is visually distinctive and innovative.

The slotted headstock is more reflective of tradition, but there have been some 12 models with solid headstock. Slotted headstock, acoustic guitar tuners. This is the type of tuner you would have found on late 1800's american made parlor guitars.

I have a few guitars with slotted headstocks including 3 martin's, 2 yamaha's, and 1 contreras. The torch was not produced by martin, but was purchased from the george h. Schaller make tuners for slotted headstocks.

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