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Not-wavy grover bass tuners?
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:08 am
by Lost Coyotes
I stumbled across a set of grover, closed back bass tuners, that look identical to wavy grovers, but the keys are flat, not wavy.
I wonder about this. Anyone know?
Thanks.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:39 am
by wints
Mike,
These are the first generation Grovers used on the 69-71 basses.
Do you want to sell them? I'd be very interested....
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:46 am
by Lost Coyotes
Thanks for the info, Andrew. They have a good home, but I'll keep you in mind.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:58 am
by dswp
Mike, not to bad mouth Andrew, but he has been know to abuse Grovers and is hording all most all of them, please consider me too..
Just kidding Andy, they are all your's if they come up for sale
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:06 am
by wints
I just knew who the next post would be from!
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:58 am
by markbass99
I seem to remember a picture of a pile of grovers that was about a foot deep that someone posted about a year ago, wasn't that guys initials D.P.? OK I was exaggerating....the pile was only six inches deep....
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:21 pm
by chefothefuture
Mmmm-
Flat Grovers.....
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:04 pm
by bassduke49
My June '72 MG (now Mink) came with flat Grovers. It's not easy to define the time period for some hardware, as there were probably bins of the stuff, and workers just grabbed stuff until they got a matched set to install. My guess.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:46 pm
by elysrand
By Sept 1972 they were putting wavies on, because one of my 72s has them. A March 72 here has flats. So the changeover happened sometime between June and Sept 1972...
I am going to see DP this coming weekend and I will take my electronic "flat-grover pocket detector device" with me, and count how many dozen sets of NOS flats that Dave has squirreled away.... I bet it is almost as many as Andy W has hidden away.....