Re: Should I Resist Waverly Tuners?
Here’s a vote for “Don’t expect too much with Waverly tuners on your mandolin.” It’s just my personal experience, but it is one real world data point.
I have Waverly tuners on two Martin guitars and the tuners are SO wonderful smooth, so when I bought a Kimble mandolin with Waverly tuners, my expectation were high. I was surprised and disappointed that the Waverly tuners on the Kimble were NOT that much better than the Grover 309 tuners on my Eastman MD315! I have Rubner tuners on another mandolin and I think they are a bit better than the Waverly tuners (but even the Rubners aren’t anywhere near as smooth as the Waverly tuners on my guitars. I wonder if the difference is the inline construction of mandolin tuners - four tuners all tied together on one plate. The guitar tuners are standalone, so no issue with tolerances.)
Doug Brock
2018 Kimble 2 point (#259), Eastman MD315, Eastman MDA315, some guitars, banjos, and fiddles
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