Machine Head/Tuner Replacement for Gibson G Force - Schaller or Grover?

JerkMoans

So the G Force is coming off my Les Paul Double Cut and something a little more Luddite is going on.  I was going to fit some Grover 102 Series but then happened upon these locking Schallers which seemed extremely good value.

Does anyone have any experience of them?  Good?  Bad?  Before I pull the trigger...

ICBM

They're very good, as long as you don't mind the look of the keys - to me they 'just look wrong' on a Gibson. Probably residual trauma from all the 1970s hack jobs I've seen...

Bear in mind that the screw hole position doesn't correspond to any of the 'right' Gibson tuners and so you can't later swap without it showing, if that is ever likely to matter.

JerkMoans

ICBM said:

They're very good, as long as you don't mind the look of the keys - to me they 'just look wrong' on a Gibson. Probably residual trauma from all the 1970s hack jobs I've seen...

Bear in mind that the screw hole position doesn't correspond to any of the 'right' Gibson tuners and so you can't later swap without it showing, if that is ever likely to matter.

Thanks for the advice. Will ponder...

JerkMoans

Thanks again for the advice. Trad-ish aesthetics won out, so I ended up going for a set of tulip headed grovers.

http://www.hotroxuk.com/grover-102nk-original-rotomatic-3-a-side-tuners-in-nickel.html