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I 'm definitely not a fan of tortoise...
That being said I contacted Laurie Williams, she can make them but I must provide her with the wood, and tuners and it's gonna cost me $450. Her custom tuner buttons have a metal keyed shaft machined from the actual metal tuner buttons that the set comes with. This provides a perfect fit and full functionality of tension adjustment no different from the originals. I also lacquer finish my buttons I contacted Mike Baranik and am awaiting for a reply. I tried to contact Stewart macDonald and hope to have news soon. Michael Gurian was a lead that Bruce Petros gave me, but he is retiring, so not sure I'll get a reply. I'll keep you guys posted but I didn't expect it to be so hard to find someone for this job.
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Yes, you already mentioned that. Duly noted.
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The luthier Harvey Leach used to sell aftermarket buttons that his father-in-law painstakingly Superglued paper-thin wood or shell veneers onto. They were beautiful, but so far as I'm aware he offered them for Schaller gears only. He used Schaller pearloid buttons as the base for the veneers. HOWEVER - if you prefer Gotoh gears, you can get Schaller-style pearloid buttons drilled for Gotoh tuner shafts, and perform the same operation on them: Allparts can sell you those buttons for $30 a set, and with some practice and some Superglue you could get the look you want. Hope this helps. Wade Hampton Miller |
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Good that you communicated with Laurie, he does amazing work on tuner buttons. If you are looking for Aussie wood ideas you can try here: http://australianburls.com/Scalesand...esandGrips.htm
Seems like the best Australian wood is bought from the USA! |
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go to eBay and do a search for gotoh buttons and a few variations using the wood as an add-on.
I was able to locate awesome Koa buttons for my Cordoba guitar there. They cost me $15.
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I finally looked at your link (with the pics). It doesn't seem that hard to make them yourself. I might give it a go... For the whole how did you make the square shape in the inner side of the wood buttons ? The rest seems to be a simple round drill for the screw correct ? Thanks
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The most challenging part for me was figuring out how to get the surface around the rectangular opening to be perfectly perpendicular to the hole. If it's not right, they feel loose nomatter how much you tighten the screw. |
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I'm starting to wonder if keeping part of the Metal button and adapting the wood around it (glueing it around wouldn't be better...). Sort of what Laurie William makes apparently. This way they wouldn't be loose at all as the buttons would keep the keyed shaft inside of them...
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Give Andy Birko a try. He does really nice CNC work, and I suspect he can make exactly what you want.
http://www.birkonium.com/
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But I'm getting in a mood of trying this by myself even more. I'll see how much it cost and see what I decide to do.
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try these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tone-Ninja-G...wAAOSwQgpXAZhH http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-6-Small-...UAAOSwhOVXf-FM http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Small-Scha...gAAOSww9VXhAgI
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