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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

460.0. "SPERZEL MACHINE HEADS ?" by THEBAY::RYAN () Sun Jan 10 1988 13:48

Does anyone have any experience with SPERZEL TUNING machines. ?
Apparently the post height of the machines is graduated from the heighest on
the low E to the lowest on the top E. The machines are supposed to allow use
of a whammy system without the string clamp.
Anyone know the cost ?

		Thanks Joe.
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460.1A Hot Item !!ANGORA::JACQUESMon Jan 11 1988 10:0725
    I just put a set on my Tele. Very few stores have them in stock. The
    only place I know of that has them is Hamel Music in Chelmsford.
    They sell for $48.oo, but are definately worth the money. 
    
    My only complaint is that in the advertisment in Guitar Player
    they boasted that it was not necessary to "butcher" your headstock
    to install these tuners, when in fact you do to a small extent.
    The holes drilled through the headstock have to be enlarged, and
    a small hole must be drilled into the back of the headstock, for
    each tuner, to  accomidate a spring pin, which prevents the machine
    from spinning. Granted you don't have to drill additional screw holes,
    but the alterations required are still a bit more radical than I
    had hoped. I always figured I could go back to the original tuners if 
    I wanted to, but now that I have installed them on my guitar I know 
    that it would be difficult at best to return to the original tuners.
                                  
    Sperzel tuners are available in Black, chrome, gold plated, and
    I have seen an Ibanez guitar with them installed by the factory,
    which had a stainless steel (satin steel) finish to them.
    
    Mark Jacques.
460.2Who makes them ?THEBAY::RYANThu Jan 14 1988 18:026
    Mark,
    	Could you let me have the address of the manufacturer as I can't
    seem to find them in the bay area.
    		
    		Thanks 
    			Joe
460.3Sperzel's addressANGORA::JACQUESSun Jan 17 1988 22:5115
    The address is:
    
    Sperzel
    7810 Lake Ave
    Cleveland, Ohio 44102
    
    I have heard all kinds of stories about the ownership of the company.
    Some people claim they went out of business, others claim they only
    sells to major manufacturers. Hamel Music in Chelmsford, Ma. stocks
    the full line of Sperzel's including replacement parts as well. 
    
    Good Luck finding them.
    
    Mark Jacques