I have an 80s Johnston mandolin with reverse tuners. Can they be replaced? So far I've been unsuccessful. Help!
I have an 80s Johnston mandolin with reverse tuners. Can they be replaced? So far I've been unsuccessful. Help!
My Sparks had reverse tuners at one point, my dad replaced them with normal ones. There’s significant evidence on the back of the headstock from the old tuners, but it’s a small price to pay to turn them the same direction as every other stringed instrument I own.
Soliver arm rested and Tone-Garded Northfield Model M with D’Addario NB 11.5-41, picked with a Wegen Bluegrass 1.4
Post a picture of your tuners. Some manufacturers make them in the same worm over/worm under configuration that turn the right way.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Mike has my what were backwards (CW) turning Schaller F tuners ..
when I had them on my Lebeda mandolin , in worm under configuration..
Their design , before their latest Grand Tune set, you could take them apart , so..
shuffling worm-button shafts , and re configuring them as worm over tuners ,
then they'd turn proper (CCW)
Counter clockwise,= as if a wooden peg on a violin, (the upper 2)
but as a right angle gear with a 16:1 ratio.
\\\\ vs //// in the worm gear machining
..
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