| Author | Message | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1578 Registered: 5-2006 |
I want to get a D tuner for my fretless (all other 4 stringers have one now) The fretless has what looks like the newer style Gotoh GB707 tuners? The tuners on my 2010 Elan look more like the older GB7 (can't find them on the Gotoh site) GB707? (GB707 on Gotoh site)   GB7?   (sorry, blurry...) So what is the current used model by Alembic? And is the "A" branded GB707(?) model available from Alembic? | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 8306 Registered: 6-2000 |
The older tuners like the black ones on your bass are what we have made for us now. When they changed to the ones with the cylindrical post like the gold ones on your Orion it was without notice to us and we hated them. Been working on a couple of miscommunications with ordering these old style ones (like your black bass), but they are finally back in production, and we hope to see them here in the near future. I might have some of the fat post ones in inventory, but I'm out of the ones we like the best with our "A" brand on them. | ||
| edwardofhuncote
Member Username: edwardofhuncote Post Number: 81 Registered: 6-2014 |
Hey Flip, are those strings gold-plated (on that incredibly beautiful spalted custom) or is that just an odd camera reaction? | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1580 Registered: 5-2006 |
Thanx Mica! :-) Gregory: Those are Optima strings, click here (Dutch webshop) I'm back to stainless steels now (R.Cocco) better and longer lasting tone. :-) | ||
| slawie
Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 683 Registered: 8-2002 |
Hello Flip, I contacted Schaller and Hipshot Eventually I bought from Hipshot [email addresses removed] Both companies were great to work with and Hipshot supplied the De-tuner that required no drilling into the headstock. The post is a little shorter that the Alembic winding post. It is called the M4S (Message edited by adriaan on November 01, 2014) | ||
| adriaan
Moderator Username: adriaan Post Number: 3165 Registered: 6-2002 |
Details forwarded to Flip ... | ||
| slawie
Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 684 Registered: 8-2002 |
Apologies for the rules breach | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1582 Registered: 5-2006 |
Thanx Slawie & Adriaan! Slawie: These are not Schallers, those were used mainly before the '90s by Alembic. Altough they did use Schallers Post 90s (my '91 Spoiler 5 has Schallers, '90 Elan has Gotohs) I don't think there ever been Alembic branded Schallers, IIrc they started with Alembic branded Gotohs in the late 80s/early 90s? Schaller M4:  Gotoh GB7:  (Message edited by fc_spoiler on November 01, 2014) | ||
| slawie
Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 685 Registered: 8-2002 |
Check the attached pic I replaced the tuner on my 1975 bass  | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1584 Registered: 5-2006 |
Ah :-) Those are vintage Schallers, they changed the location of the anchor screw somewhere in the late 70's I think. Also a change that Alembic wasn't very happy with if I'm not mistaken, especially with the Cone headstock (which went into "mass" production around the same time) -> The A & D tuners had to be sanded down to make them fit (see the shared anchor screw in the above pic) | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1585 Registered: 5-2006 |
Here is the newer style Xtender with smaller base plate:  Hipshot replied and they won't do a custom job with the Alembic branded tuner because "won't be able to replace if there is a problem during converting them to Xtenders" So I might ask them to make me one with the GB707 and then switch the "dust cover" myself. | ||
| slawie
Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 686 Registered: 8-2002 |
Flip, I am glad it worked out for you. I found the folks at Hipshot to be extremely accommodating. slawie | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1586 Registered: 5-2006 |
"and then switch the "dust cover" myself" Which is surprisingly easy to do:  I'll see if I can switch this shaft and button with the E tuner from my fretless, if that fits I can order the regular GB7 Xtender :-) | ||
| fc_spoiler
Senior Member Username: fc_spoiler Post Number: 1597 Registered: 5-2006 |
The "dustcaps" of the newer ones didn't come of as easy, so I opted for the easy way out :D   |
