The Steel Guitar Forum

It has to do with not having several windings of string on the tuner peg. Pretty sure this has been discussed a few times in the past. Think of it as being like a tunerless design.

Randy I have a Fessendon 3 x 5 I would like to sell , black in very good condition with a nice compact fight case. PM me if you're interested...Stormy.

They aren't "fiddly" as it does not require head bolt torque specs. Just the time and hassle of changing strings/a string, is well worth having them, not to mention better tuning stability. Just my 2 cents.

ZB had a student model around the same era, very early 70's is when I got mine and it was used.

Micheal (PSGparts), the link John posted, has them , look under "hardware" heading....

LOL..good one Charlie..

Very cool, excellent interview. Thanks for posting this...Stormy

You can get them from Jerry Fessendon.

Wow that's the cleanest ZB I've seen in many years..inside and out..

It would be easier if you have some pics of it.

Thx for the link Ian, they have a good selection of tuning machines and other guitar parts at reasonable prices.Just a little tidbit I found out when I was building my Tele last winter, most,if not all, Fender tuners are made by a south Korean company named Ping. I have a set of the Fender branded l...

What Stu said, Kevin is a master of ZB's ,one that he redid I remember he converted it to cross rods and bell cranks ,got rid of the 100 lbs or so of scrap iron from the old bar setup. It looked awesome.

When did you last clean the changer? And maybe check the lower return springs to make sure they haven't got weak and are pulling away from the stop...just a couple thoughts

My home made project psg has round shafts and they don't slip ever.....but that's likely to be a result of using hardened, tempered, 5/16" motor shaft rod with a full length key way for the set screws to seat.

Mike Wheeler wrote: but the Fessenden style 3/8ths square crossrod mount.

My Fessenden has 5/16", square, steel crossshafts.

Whoaa she's gorgeous Mike,they just keep gettin better killer work Mike....Stormy

Same here, I d/l it to my virtual drive partition, and looked it over and upon opening the .pdf file, malware bytes blocked the action so it was trashed and deleted.

You're correct Dan, my vision is crappier than the plastic , I thought it was gone until you mentioned it wasn't. I had to zoom in firefox to see it was there..duh.

Yep looks like someone took the crappy plastic covering off a later series maverick.

Yes Hylands does work pretty well as it contains cinchona bark which has been a main source of quinine for hundreds of years.This is the way around the fact that the FDA banned quinine sulfate for leg cramps in 1994, Drs can't even prescribe it, oh except for 1 specific brand which retails for 4$ pl...

Quinine sulfate ,5mg is a commonly used medicinal compound for any muscle cramp and associated spasms. Used to be a Rx I think it's OTC now, it's the "active" component of Legatrin(?)sp. What ever that OTC leg cramp med u can find at most any drugstore.I think the OTC dosage is 2.5mg per d...

Put the stuck ones in some solventt like mineral spirits and soke them a bit. The grease they put in older Sperzels gets dry and kinda hardens over time, so after the soak 30 min take one by one and start gently turn and work them you may have to take a small screwdriver or similar to help breakup t...

Outstanding!

Anyone know if Martin Weenick is still building? Haven't heard from him in some time.

Sahara by Bob Stufflebeam .