Tuner Buttons/Keys

[OutWithTheBlue]

Anyone know of any place to get nice wood tuner buttons? Thanks in advance!

[abalone at last]

Some one will know....what are you after ...ebony, rosewood , koa ..

[Michael T]

Rothesay Music has some nice hand made stuff but pricey, I have used the mini tortise on my DV09 and they are classey.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/rothesay-music/Handmade-Tuner-buttons-/_i.html?_fsub=18314392&_sid=37793935&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322




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[OutWithTheBlue]

Im looking for a nice selection of all three of those woods really. Mainly ebony and rosewood though. Thanks for teh suggestions! Anyone have anymore?

[tadol]

Past experience is that it depends on the brand of tuner. The buttons that worked on some Shallers didn't work on the Pings, and Gotohs didn't work on either, or something like that. Unless you can get them pretty cheap, or get a return guarrantee, it seems like you may be better off ordering tuners with the buttons you want -

[pierrev]

When i wanted to change my buttons on my C19(Schallers tuners) i went on Schallers web site and they have a section under accoustic tuners and theres a good selection of buttons. i ordered a set of rosewood buttons trough my friendly guitar shop, it took about 6 weeks and cost about 40$ CND. and naturelly the fit was perfect.

Pierre

[AZLiberty]

It's very easy to get nice buttons for Schallers or Grovers since they were the standard "go to" tuners for decades.  Finding nice buttons that fit Pings or Gotohs is a bit harder.

Mini tuners usually have a different shaft size than the full size tuners, so full size buttons won't always fit minis and vice versa.

If you like a particular style of button (I like the squared off Schaller style) it gets harder yet.


At one point a couple years ago we had started a group effort to measure tuner shaft sizes and work out a cross referenced comparability chart.  Is this worth revisiting?

[hatofthecat]

Rothesay Music has some nice hand made stuff but pricey,

I've just ordered some of their Camel bone ones for the Schallers on my L-09, at least the postage is cheap as I'm in the UK.  Have asked them to pick out some off-white ones with a little character, well no point in having bone if it just looks like plastic   

Will post some pics when they arrive. 

Pete

[hatofthecat]

As promised a pic of the Camel bone buttons fitted onto the Schallers on my L-09. I asked for a set with plenty of character and they picked out these.  They are if anything darker colour than pic shows and each button is very different    ...now what to do with the spare ebony set I took off 

[Michael T]

Those look great, ya did good, very classey, the are worth the extra couple bucks.   

[OutWithTheBlue]

As promised a pic of the Camel bone buttons fitted onto the Schallers on my L-09. I asked for a set with plenty of character and they picked out these.  They are if anything darker colour than pic shows and each button is very different    ...now what to do with the spare ebony set I took off 

wow i like! looks very subtle but elegant at the same time. great choice. thanks for the pic! are you thinking about selling your spare ebony ones?

[cke]

As promised a pic of the Camel bone buttons fitted onto the Schallers on my L-09. I asked for a set with plenty of character and they picked out these.  They are if anything darker colour than pic shows and each button is very different    ...now what to do with the spare ebony set I took off 

I put these on my 00-03/Schaller's/ Nice, huh?

[hatofthecat]

you thinking about selling your spare ebony ones?

Will hang on to them for now as spares, they are just the regular StewMac ones for Schallers, the #3059 ones.  I put those on as soon as I got the guitar as the original metal buttons weigh a ton and made the guitar feel very headstock heavy

One thing I learned as regards fitting new buttons on the Schallers, is to keep pressure on the reverse edge of the tuner when you undo the button screw.  Otherwise the spring loading retracts the shaft the button fits on back through the body of the tuner and its a real pain trying to then push it back through against the spring tension so you can actually get the screw attached to fix the new button in place  

Pete

[OutWithTheBlue]

Thx for the site, I'll order some when the money pops up!