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07-22-2010, 06:54 PM
| | | | irving sloane machine heads
does anyone know a place to get a great deal on these machine heads or others like it? please...would be a great help?
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07-23-2010, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: arlington va | | | Try Lowstrings.net. I got mine there for a good price. I LOVE them--they were worth every penny
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07-23-2010, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by PB+J  Try Lowstrings.net. I got mine there for a good price. I LOVE them--they were worth every penny | That's lowstrings.com, I believe.
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07-24-2010, 05:09 AM
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11-20-2010, 11:39 AM
| | | | can these be installed on a bass that currently has plates on the side onf the peg box? |
11-21-2010, 04:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Francico Bay Area | | | I'm surprised you can get them anywhere but Gage's shop. He seemed to have some exclusive hold on them.
They ARE fantastic tuners. I have a set on my Golia bass.
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11-21-2010, 05:18 AM
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11-21-2010, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Port Elizabeth, South Africa | | At those prices, these must be really good. Or something.  |
11-21-2010, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by michaeln | No, he wanted sloan tuners that could be used with sideplates.
They're very expensive, but very very good. My bass, a Shen, had nice brass tuners that rattled and had a lot of backlash. The Sloans are dead silent and extremely precise--no backlash, no slop. They are very slow though, in that you have to turn them a lot to see a in change in pitch. Changing strings I always use one of these things that attach to a cordless drill.
They won't really make you play any better, but they will make everyday tuning corrections easier and more pleasant
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11-21-2010, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by PB+J No, he wanted sloan tuners that could be used with sideplates. | The OP didn't specify that, that was someone else.
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11-21-2010, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by PB+J No, he wanted sloan tuners that could be used with sideplates.
They're very expensive, but very very good. My bass, a Shen, had nice brass tuners that rattled and had a lot of backlash. The Sloans are dead silent and extremely precise--no backlash, no slop. They are very slow though, in that you have to turn them a lot to see a in change in pitch. Changing strings I always use one of these things that attach to a cordless drill.
They won't really make you play any better, but they will make everyday tuning corrections easier and more pleasant | The ones on Gage's site look the same. Are there special versions for side plates? I wasn't aware that they made those.
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11-21-2010, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: emmitsburg, maryland | | | they are a stand alone tuner,i believe that is the point, the only great deal i suspect would be a used set (fitting required) that someone would part with. |
11-21-2010, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I wonder what someone's gonna put on when they take off a set of those?
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11-21-2010, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by forester they are a stand alone tuner,i believe that is the point, the only great deal i suspect would be a used set (fitting required) that someone would part with. | That's my understanding as well. What seemed confusing was this, in response to michaeln's link to the pics: Quote:
Originally Posted by PB+J No, he wanted sloan tuners that could be used with sideplates. | Sounded like PB+J was suggesting that there's another option.
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11-21-2010, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: arlington va | | | Not that I now of--I think the Sloans are only available as single tuners. Ask Thomas Wolf at Lowstrings.com--that's where I got mine
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11-21-2010, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by PB+J Not that I now of--I think the Sloans are only available as single tuners. Ask Thomas Wolf at Lowstrings.com--that's where I got mine | Thanks-- I only knew of the single machines as well.
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11-21-2010, 11:58 PM
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11-22-2010, 06:16 AM
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11-22-2010, 08:50 AM
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Builder for Audiokinesis and Fearful speakers Endorser for EA, Roscoe | | | | | If I'm not mistaken, these machines are made in the Phillipines. There have been reports that these machines aren't machined as well as the Sloanes.I think that Jeff Bolbach used similar Phillipine machines but had a machinist clean up the gears. |
11-22-2010, 09:23 AM
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