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02-02-2010, 11:39 PM
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Hello everyone, first post here. I'm looking for specific bass machine heads. I need some that are small like guitar machine heads. Also, they should have a pentagon shape to them as opposed to a half circle shape. I need some like the ones in this picture. It looks like there is a logo of the brand of the tuners (I see stripes like a flag almost). Thanks in advance! 
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02-03-2010, 12:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | Hi.
The only tuners like that I remember were the Gotoh plastic ones from the 70's.
They were hexagonal rather than pentagonal in shape though.
And intended for guitars.
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02-03-2010, 12:36 AM
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02-03-2010, 12:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Oceanside, CA | | I found these but they're for guitar...gotoh's, didn't see this style for bass though...don't know if it would work or not but maybe you could just swap the heads if you can't find them? 
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02-03-2010, 06:09 AM
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02-03-2010, 06:15 AM
| | | | The images could be better. It is difficult to make out the logo. However, from what can be seen in the shadows they seem to indicate the tuners were manufactured by Ping.
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02-03-2010, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Sandman6983 I found these but they're for guitar...gotoh's, didn't see this style for bass though...don't know if it would work or not but maybe you could just swap the heads if you can't find them? |
Yeah, I'm looking for something in that style but for bass. Swap the heads? I know the holes would be a different size for guitar vs bass. Do you mean replacing the "stick" where the strings go through? |
02-03-2010, 10:21 AM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | The only ones that ring a bell for me, that may be as small as that, would be Danelectro. But they're mostly creme plastic heads though. Yep, here are the heads, just need to get some Gotoh bass tuners. http://www.allparts.com/Chrome-Mini-...k-7714-010.htm
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02-03-2010, 11:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | The logo on the OP appears to be Ping's logo. I don't know who REALLY made them, but lots of inexpensive guitars in the late '80s had them and the literature referred to them as Ping.
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02-03-2010, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Decline221984 Yeah, I'm looking for something in that style but for bass. Swap the heads? I know the holes would be a different size for guitar vs bass. Do you mean replacing the "stick" where the strings go through? | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rickett Customs | I was saying just swap the buttons with these ones. Didn't know the actual terminology for it...lol. |
02-05-2010, 01:02 AM
| | | Ok, update. I found out where these tuners come from. They're from a Danelectro Hodad bass. The danelectro page says they're "Gotoh style" tunners, but I've serached Gotoh everywhere and can't find the exact model. But now I know they exist independantly. I emailed danelectro today. 
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03-12-2012, 09:19 PM
| | | | I am new here . I hope it is ok to post this question here. Is it a big deal if that little plastic washer on the tuning peg comes of ? thanks |
03-12-2012, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by icman I am new here . I hope it is ok to post this question here. Is it a big deal if that little plastic washer on the tuning peg comes of ? thanks | Welcome to TalkBass icman.
The washer is there for a reason, so if You have anything else to order from Allparts or similar vendor, or if you're in a decent music shop, IMHO you should get a set.
Quite a few tuners on the budget side of the spectrum tend to lose those washers, My cheapo 6er for example is missing 2 ATM IIRC.
The washer(s) adjusts the backlash on the gear, and the plastick one acts as a bearing, so not having the washer may eventually wear the wheel of the worm gear a little bit more than when it's not there.
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03-15-2012, 10:52 PM
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Thanks for the info Sam i have them on order. It is for a ibanez artcore asb 140 got it on ebay for $225.00 turns out to be a very nice different kind of bass, at least for me and i want to keep it in the best shape i can. thanks again- icman | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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