Re: Has Waverly Jumped the Shark?
The Waverlies on my two Martins are SOOO smooth to turn - I just love them and get extra satisfaction every time I tune. I bought a 2018 Kimble mandolin with Waverlies in March and was surprised that the tuners weren’t so great - sort of stiff, and not consistent from tuner to tuner. Nothing like my guitar tuners. I was thinking this week that I need to lube and spin the mandolin tuners at my next string change to see if that helps any (I didn’t think to do that at the other string changes.). I’m certainly not feeling at this point that they feel much better than my Rubner tuners on another mandolin (to be fair I was disappointed by the Rubners too). The Grovers I put on my Eastman MD315 may actually work a bit better than either the Rubners or the Waverlies. I do wonder about how much of the difference between guitar and mandolin tuners might be due to the smaller tuning buttons on the mandolin.
Doug Brock
2018 Kimble 2 point (#259), Eastman MD315, Eastman MDA315, some guitars, banjos, and fiddles
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