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Consideration #1 - metal key buttons usually weigh more than plastic or wooden ones.
Consideration #2 - on some models, anything other than the Kluson keystone looks wrong.
Consideration #3 - on Juniors and Specials, anything other than the small off-white buttons looks wrong.
Consideration #4 - on some vintage pieces, the hardware finishing never matched to begin with.
#2 - I would counter that "wrong" is subjective and that the getting rid of the nasty beige-green trumps "period correctness"
#3 - as above
#4 - put black key buttons on then
I am not completely serious about any of the points I've made, but I do genuinely think the Kluson Keystone tuners are really ugly, and I can't imagine there's a guitar that wouldn't look better without them.
Am I the odd one out here?
I've got a Standard and Junior and I really like the iconic look of the keystones and round plastic tuners.
It just looks right.
They’re only held together by soft alloy rivets and easily become sloppy or fall apart completely, particularly if they get knocked. I’ve long since lost count of how many I’ve replaced - I always keep a few spares, which is not too difficult since they can’t be bought individually so I often end up breaking up a set, or replacing all six and buying back the other five from the customer.
And because they use a 10mm headstock hole and have a larger front washer, if you want to fit the far superior original folded-steel Kluson design, you need to use ‘conversion bushings’ which don’t fully cover the old marks and look a bit of a bodge.
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FWIW, only one of my Gibsons has ugly plastic tuning pegs - and they're on a G-Force tuner, which makes them even dafter looking.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein