help? Warwick tuning peg broke.
453 views
Skip to first unread message
Chris McMahon
Jan 16, 2011, 6:25:51 PM1/16/11
to The Bottom Line
Delurking for some advice:
I was changing strings on my Warwick Corvette Standard, and the tuning
peg for the D string seems to have snapped off at the base.
Te key is fine, and it turns freely, but the peg itself is loose. It
almost looks like it should screw back on, there seem to be threads in
there, but that's not happening.
So my question is: anyone know where I can get a replacement part?
Or should I replace the one tuner with a non-Warwick piece? Or
replace all four tuners? Any advice would be welcome.
Geoff Wood
Jan 16, 2011, 6:55:02 PM1/16/11
to the-bot...@googlegroups.com
You could try a generic part or tuner, but on a bass of any sort of
'quality' i would be inclined to get the real thing.
Look up who the Warwick distributors are, and their dealers, and get the
right part !
http://www.warwickbass.com/modules/distribution/distribution.php?katID=14556
Replacing just the broken one would be OK, but to look 'even' wrt wear, you
could do all 4...
geoff
Chris McMahon
Jan 16, 2011, 7:37:41 PM1/16/11
to The Bottom Line
Updated: since I posted this, I found this thread in the Warwick
forums that makes me think I should just go ahead and replace all the
tuning machines with something high quality:
http://forum.warwick.de/21-warwick-bass-customer-support/13388-warwick-machinehead-replacement.html.
Phooey.
Kraig Olmstead
Jan 16, 2011, 8:40:24 PM1/16/11
to the-bot...@googlegroups.com
Warmoth seems to typically have the best prices IME. Also check All
Parts and Stew Mac.
Parts and Stew Mac.
KO
Wm. Young
Jan 17, 2011, 11:56:58 PM1/17/11
to The Bottom Line
If you're ever going to sell the bass, it's comforting to the buyer to
have all four tuners the same. People will be expecting to see the "W"
on the back on the tuner case, but nothing wrong with seeing actual
Gotoh tuners instead.
Most Gotohs have the name stamped on the case but I've seen some that
didn't. Also, I've seen Gotohs with two different shapes and diameters
of tuner posts. One is the typical looking slender shaft with a cove
shaped into it and the other is a chunky straight tapered shaft that
is much beefier.
Schallers, such as the ones that come on Spectors, require a smaller
hole bore diameter than Gotohs, so they will flop around in a 9/16
hole that has been bored for a Gotoh-style tuner. Schallers are nice
but often hard to get. They changed
the location of the rear anchor tabs from the side of the case to the
bottom of the case, but I hardly ever see the newer style available.
You can always buy some of the old style ones on Ebay. When I found
out how much trouble Spector goes through to obtain Schallers for
their CR basses, I decided to simply avoid using them. Not worth the
aggravation.
When replacing tuners I don't like having to drill new anchor tab
holes in the back of the headstock and/or leave older holes visibly
exposed. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but it bugs me when that
happens.
I've tried Sperzels and don't like them because they have locking
tuner posts that require you to trim the strings shorter than usual. I
switch strings from one bass to another fairly often just to see what
bass and string combinations work well, and the Sperzels screw up this
strategy. Once the length of a string has been sized for a Sperzel
tuner, it's usually too short to go on another bass of the same scale
length with Gotoh or Fender type tuners.
On Jan 16, 8:40 pm, Kraig Olmstead <kra...@bitstream.net> wrote:
> Warmoth seems to typically have the best prices IME. Also check All
> Parts and Stew Mac.
>
> KO
>
> On 1/16/2011 6:37 PM, Chris McMahon wrote:
>
>
>
> > Updated: since I posted this, I found this thread in the Warwick
> > forums that makes me think I should just go ahead and replace all the
> > tuning machines with something high quality:
> >http://forum.warwick.de/21-warwick-bass-customer-support/13388-warwic....
have all four tuners the same. People will be expecting to see the "W"
on the back on the tuner case, but nothing wrong with seeing actual
Gotoh tuners instead.
Most Gotohs have the name stamped on the case but I've seen some that
didn't. Also, I've seen Gotohs with two different shapes and diameters
of tuner posts. One is the typical looking slender shaft with a cove
shaped into it and the other is a chunky straight tapered shaft that
is much beefier.
Schallers, such as the ones that come on Spectors, require a smaller
hole bore diameter than Gotohs, so they will flop around in a 9/16
hole that has been bored for a Gotoh-style tuner. Schallers are nice
but often hard to get. They changed
the location of the rear anchor tabs from the side of the case to the
bottom of the case, but I hardly ever see the newer style available.
You can always buy some of the old style ones on Ebay. When I found
out how much trouble Spector goes through to obtain Schallers for
their CR basses, I decided to simply avoid using them. Not worth the
aggravation.
When replacing tuners I don't like having to drill new anchor tab
holes in the back of the headstock and/or leave older holes visibly
exposed. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but it bugs me when that
happens.
I've tried Sperzels and don't like them because they have locking
tuner posts that require you to trim the strings shorter than usual. I
switch strings from one bass to another fairly often just to see what
bass and string combinations work well, and the Sperzels screw up this
strategy. Once the length of a string has been sized for a Sperzel
tuner, it's usually too short to go on another bass of the same scale
length with Gotoh or Fender type tuners.
On Jan 16, 8:40 pm, Kraig Olmstead <kra...@bitstream.net> wrote:
> Warmoth seems to typically have the best prices IME. Also check All
> Parts and Stew Mac.
>
> KO
>
> On 1/16/2011 6:37 PM, Chris McMahon wrote:
>
>
>
> > Updated: since I posted this, I found this thread in the Warwick
> > forums that makes me think I should just go ahead and replace all the
> > tuning machines with something high quality:
Stephen Koff
Sep 26, 2015, 5:15:41 PM9/26/15
to The Bottom Line
I'm coming to this way late, but since I just solved a Warwick tuning post/peg problem (on a Warwick Thumb Bass) and had first turned to this forum for advice, I thought I'd add this, I could not find a Warwick replacement at a dealer and was offered a Gotoh tuning peg as a suitable and similar-looking substitute. I like Gotoh (I have one of their bridges on a different bass) and this dealer's repair shop is top rate, but wanted Warwick. I found a store online, The Bass Place. (www.thebassplace.com) and called. They had Warwick parts, and with a credit card payment of $35 including shipping, I had the replacement -- a bona fide Warwick, with the "W" on the back -- in two days, mailed from The Bass Place in Arizona to my home on the East Coast. The simplest repair I have ever made.
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages