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Home : Tuners : Guitar, slotted peghead tuners : Golden Age Restoration Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar : Golden Age Restoration Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar with Square-end Baseplates

Pre-war style tuners reborn

Golden Age Restoration Tuners

for Slotted Peghead Guitar
with Square-end Baseplates


Read 18 Reviews   |   Write a Review

Our replica 3-on-plate tuners featuring square worm supports on rectangular steel plates. Their improved 15:1 gear ratio provides better tuning than the originals, and our popular relic nickel finish complements vintage hardware. Available with original-shape cream or black plastic knobs.

Golden Age tuners are exclusively from Stewart-MacDonald, made with our eye for details and exact specifications.

"People who build replica instruments or who do restoration or repair work are just going to love these." —Frank Ford, vintage instrument repair expert

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Golden Age Restoration Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar with Square-end Baseplates
 
  Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
2501 With matte cream knobs Yes
$40.20
3 or more $36.18  

2501-B With matte black knobs Yes
$40.20
3 or more $36.18  


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Golden Age tuners are the rebirth of popular early 20th Century tuning machine designs, featuring simple steel plates and open gears. Replacements for the originals have long been sought by collectors and repairmen, to restore older guitars and improve their tuning. They add an authentic look to reproduction guitars.

15:1 gear ratio for improved tuning
Vintage-style riveted worm supports
Original-shape matte cream or matte black plastic knobs
.236" (6.00mm) string post diameter
Original mounting screw spacing (screws incuded)
1-3/8" (34.93mm) string post spacing
Relic nickel finish

Also available to fit solid pegheads and for 12-string guitar.

Note: Plate-mounted tuners can't work efficiently if the pegholes are improperly aligned. Our Tuner Drill Jig ensures the correct spacing for accurate tuning.

"The Golden Age Restoration tuners are really great. I have just put them onto my 1929 Gibson L-1...I like the fact that someone went to the trouble of making them look right." —John Evans, Brussels Belgium

"Great tuners with the right look and feel! The only thing different about them is that they are better made and more functional." —Richard Barnes, Pomona CA

To be sure these tuners fit your instrument, compare your existing machines and peghole dimensions to our listed specs to help determine the best replacement.
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Golden Age Restoration Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar with Square-end Baseplates
Golden Age Restoration Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar with Square-end Baseplates
 
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5 4-17-2013
Golden Age Restoration Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar with Square-end Baseplates

Exactly what I was looking for. Top quality and looks great on my 100 year old parlor guitar.

Fredo  Cork Ireland
5 2-14-2013
I loved it!

Just a perfect companion for a 0-18 guitar. Excelent cost x benefit.

Ricardo Fonseca  SP, Brazil Read my reviews (8)
5 12-30-2012
Golden age restoration tuners

They look great and work great, very nice

Garett Lahey  Cape Breton
5 12-04-2012
The vintage look

Give's a great vintage look on my Triolian reproduction project.

Michel Boissonneault  Quêbec, Cab Read my reviews (9)
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5 11-10-2012
Restoration Story

I just finished restoring a J. Barnard Brazilian rosewood guitar made in Chicago in the 1920's. I used some Golden Age Square-end tuners and ebony bridge pins. The tuners were great, with a decent distressed finish and excellent quality without any slop. They fit perfectly. Reset the back, new binding and crack repair. I French polished the instrument and dressed the bar frets. It sounds wonderful. The customer got this guitar at auction for fifty bucks!

Clive  West Kelowna, BC
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5 8-28-2012
Very nice

Looks and works great! I totally recomend it.

MarioS  Brazil
5 4-05-2012
Resophonic guitar

received the shipment to one week after purchase, perfect!, the product really all good.

Pablo javier  Alcudia España Read my reviews (2)
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5 4-04-2012
Golden Age Restoration Tuners

Bought them for a 1933 National resonator. Didn't want to alter the instrument and I didn't have to thanks to Stew-Mac! Perfect fit and they looked identical to the original tuning machines.

Jim Hobson  Vernon, NJ Read my reviews (3)
5 1-16-2012
Excellent Vintage Style Tuners

I put these tuners on my Stewart Mcdonald 000 guitar kit and I am very pleased with the precision and quality.

Caruso  Louisiana Read my reviews (2)
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2 12-14-2011
Golden Age Tuners

I've tried a few sets of Golden Age tuners now and have reluctantly come to the conclusion that I would not use them again. They look good, right on for a vintage style restoration or relic and the price is good. Unfortunately they just don't work well at all. There is a mountain of slack in the mechanism. When changing tunings you need at least three shots at it before the guitar will stay in tune.

Don1  Adelaide, Australia
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