The Steel Guitar Forum

Hopefully the picture says it all:



I just bought this steel, and a couple of the tuning machines are broken as you can see. I can wedge a block of wood between the shaft and the ledge for the next tuner as a temporary fix, but I'd like to replace all of them.

Can somebody direct me to either a direct replacement, or preferably, something with a metal body that won't be as likely to break in the future?

If it helps, the SN is 1C3122



Thanks for any help.

They look like Schaller tuners.
Do a search and you should be able to locate some.
On the ZB I recently rebuilt it had Schaller tuners and they were similiar to the style on your guitar.
However, they were different enough that I had to buy them from a company in Germany.

Thanks

The weird thing is that screw hole, which is at 9 o'clock when viewed from this angle. All the tuners I've ever seen have the screw hole offset at about 7 o'clock (I suppose to allow for closer spacing on an inline guitar head stock.)

Michael,
The Schallers on my ZB had two screw holes and one was at 9 o'clock.

Okay, I think maybe I found what I need?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Schaller-M6 ... 4d2bba32fa

hmm, looks like these grovers might fit as well, for less moolah.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GROVER-ROTOMATI ... 27fa745a3c

Try www.stewmac.com

For the sake of completeness, after some looking around I found these Wilkinsons

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151345176510

... for $27 per 3&3 set, and I'm happy to report that they fit in my MSA's keyheads with no modifications needed (I'd read others had to bore out the holes to 10mm on older guitars). And I have 2 spares just in case.

Thanks