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03-09-2012, 01:01 AM
| | |  When to use HatPeg Tuners
I've looked around google images alot and noticed that the only time someone ever puts on or already has hatpeg tuners on their bass is when they dont have a brass plate covering most of the scroll. Is this just me or is it an unspoken rule? Does anyone have a bass with hatpegs and brass plates?  |
03-09-2012, 06:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | I have neither plate nor hatpegs. I don't think there's a "rule".
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03-09-2012, 06:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | One of my buddies at school has plates/hatpegs. I think the only rule is this: if one wants to look awesome, get hatpegs.
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03-09-2012, 09:46 AM
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03-09-2012, 10:00 AM
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I like Ed's and I like mine, as well. Niether may be as "awesome" to look at as hat pegs. 
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03-09-2012, 10:28 AM
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Ha, ha. . .now that's "awesome," Paul.
As far as "hat pegs." I never heard the term until I started reading TB. On my old bass, my father and I just called them the wooden knobs. In fact, he replaced the original ones, which were cracked and ratty, with new ones that he turned on a lathe, out of I don't know what kind of wood! They've lasted over 50 years and never've slipped out of tune 
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03-09-2012, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton  Neither may be as "awesome" to look at as hat pegs. | For us mere mortals, they have to do. Do I remember you saying your machines are cast iron? What a task that must have been.
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03-09-2012, 10:52 AM
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Yeth, cast iron plates.
If I had to put machines on a bass that I spent months on to build, though, i'd go with the Sloane's.
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03-09-2012, 12:57 PM
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Sal... pegs vs. non pegs vs. plate vs. w/e is a non issue. It's mostly cosmetics. Some people look for tuners that simply have less mass which can be found in both types of pegs. Plates generally add weight so it might have an affect on sound. Older basses sometimes come with Hatpegs. I put hatpegs on my bass because I like the look.
Pegs + plates do exist. Again, it's mostly just looks.
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03-09-2012, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | I use hat peg tuners when they're on the bass that I'm using at the moment. It's usually immediately before the moment I forget they are on there, and I turn to the left, and drive the damn thing halfway through the side of my head. |
03-09-2012, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson I use hat peg tuners when they're on the bass that I'm using at the moment. It's usually immediately before the moment I forget they are on there, and I turn to the left, and drive the damn thing halfway through the side of my head. | One of the many reasons I can't stand those &^@%!$* things.... |
03-09-2012, 02:34 PM
| | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | That still has never happened to me. Maybe my bass is too big?
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03-09-2012, 03:05 PM
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03-09-2012, 03:18 PM
| | | | Hitting your heads?
You guys must be 7 feet tall or you're using Israel Crosby's bass peg
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03-10-2012, 08:49 AM
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03-10-2012, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton I like Ed's and I like mine, as well. Niether may be as "awesome" to look at as hat pegs. | I looked up the patent. For those who are curious... Patent US1135347 - JOSEPH - Google Patents |
03-10-2012, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by hdiddy Again, it's mostly just looks. | Kindly disagree.
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03-10-2012, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton I like Ed's and I like mine, as well. Niether may be as "awesome" to look at as hat pegs. | very steam punk, really cool. Your whole bass is durn fine though.
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03-10-2012, 10:24 PM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Interestingly, my son said "steam punk" when I showed him the picture of Paul's tuners. Stylistically, I think they would have been consistent with the spirit of the day for industrial architecture in Chicago in that time period -- a style that I happen to admire.
The patent suggests that the tuners were designed by Bohmann himself, or by someone who was working directly for him. Any idea what metal the plates are cast from? |
03-11-2012, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by fdeck Interestingly, my son said "steam punk" when I showed him the picture of Paul's tuners. Stylistically, I think they would have been consistent with the spirit of the day for industrial architecture in Chicago in that time period -- a style that I happen to admire.
The patent suggests that the tuners were designed by Bohmann himself, or by someone who was working directly for him. Any idea what metal the plates are cast from? | Iron. Thanks for your interest. You're right on about the Chicago architecture thing. The bass was actually made in 1888 but the machines were added in 1915.
The Sloane machines would be my first chioce of contemporary machines, then prolly Ed's that I think came from Barry Kolstein but were made in the Philipines by Jaques Gagnon. I use one of his flight cases. The Kolstein's come in four different designs. I like Ed's the best, but he's always been a fashion plate. 
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