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Grover Bass Tuners on EBay
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:25 pm
by lowendbob
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:22 pm
by thx1955
They might come in right handy !!!
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:34 pm
by dswp
I bid up to $44.00, I'm out
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:44 pm
by beatlefan
I'm in...I need 'em for my '72 remodeling project...
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:16 am
by rictified
So far that's a good deal, I've seen them go way higher than 56.00.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:25 am
by bassduke49
Wavy Grovers. Not to be confused with Wavy Gravy.
;^)
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:44 am
by wints
A long way to go on these in all probability...
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:06 am
by charlyg
I "stole" the name Wavy Gravy for my in-house radio show( it was piped to all of the same speakers as the 1MC(pa system for lack of better description!) on the Navy ship I was on. I had the prized 4-8pm show! Lotsa rock!
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:01 am
by jwr2
aren't those grovers famous for falling apart and going out of tune???
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:02 am
by jwr2
spesking of tuners ... I hate those old nickel backwards tuners ... they look like **** and turn the wrong way ...
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:10 am
by charlyg
we're supposed to tune these things???
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:18 am
by rictified
I like reverse tuners and Grovers are ok although they are famous for the backs falling off.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:57 am
by rhampshire
It's super easy to re-swedge the pins, though.
Once you do that, they're super smooth. I love 'em!
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:00 am
by wayang
Rob...could you elaborate? I'm not hip to what the term 'swedging' refers to, let alone 're-swedging'...I'm currently experiencing the famous quality Bob mentioned with one of my '74 4001's Grovers...
At this point in my musical career I could use all the super smoothness I can get...
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:32 am
by rhampshire
First, take the tuner off of the headstock and put it on something REAL solid - vice, anvil, reinforced workbench, etc... "Swedging" is the process of mushrooming out the end of a pin using a punch. Looking at the back of the tuner, you can see there are four pins that go through the back cover. The ends of the pins need to be swedged, that's what holds the thing together. Problem is, grover didn't hit 'em hard enough in the first place. I use a simple center punch with a 45 degree point and a 16 oz hammer. You gotta hammer the **** out of the pins, but it works, and works well...