Golden Age Restoration Engraved Tuners for Slotted Peghead Guitar

I used these tuners to upgrade the clunky stock tuners on a Washburn parlor guitar. They are beautiful tuners, well crafted, but fitting them pointed out a couple of problems.

First, the string posts are short. They barely spanned the width of the slot and reached the inner holes. They need to be 1/16 longer. Keep this in mind if your string slots are wider than normal.

Second, the wave washers at the base of the posts are larger diameter than the posts, themselves, so I had to countersink the post holes in the headstock to clear them. Fix these problems and I'd give you 5 stars.

The installed tuners do look great and work well. but the short posts give me cause for concern in the long run (on this guitar).

These are beautiful tuners and they appropriate very well with the peghead which I developed.
And I also think they are a littlebit short and might have been 5mm (0.19") longer. Hopefully they will last for a long time.
The service of StewMac is good I think.

This guitar won the 3th price of the acoustic guitars last saturday at the Dutch Guitarbuildersmeeting and it's my first one.

Regards Bluewey

Used to replace the tuners on my 1973 Model 66 Dobro. Required a few mods to fit (slight increase/drilling for peg hole, only 2 of 3 mounting holes had alignment), but it ended up working fine. Nice retro look, work better than the old ones.

These fit,work,and look great on my 1941 Martin 00-18G.

I have used these tuners on a repro French style 19th century classical salon guitar and they look just right. Great value for money, and good looking tuners.

When the original tuners on my 1930 National Style 4 squareneck joined their ohana in the sky, I was at a loss for what to use as replacements. At the time, I went with the Waverley "3 on a plate" tuners as they were the closest option. Though they are notably the finest tuner available, they always seemed out of place on the National. Partly due to the National's misaligned pegholes and the Waverley's .249 post diameter, the Waverley's never really fit.

What a blessing the Golden Age tuners are. Though they are not the same engraving as the original tuners, they drop right in, and the relic finish matches well with the 80 year old well loved nickel plating of my National. In short; I love these tuners and so does my Golden Age National :-)

I really like the look and function of these tuners. Perfect for a vintage instrument. I do agree with the other reviewer that the top of the tuner is short, leaving old screw mounting holes to be filled and touched up.

I am upgrading my review to 4 stars. Most vintage guitars need some degree of touch-up, so this is a minor inconvenience when compared to the extremely high quality of these tuners.

These are beautiful, precise tuners (which I WILL use on my handmade guitars) that have one noticeable flaw: they need to be 1/8" longer on the upper end. I recently replaced the original tuners on a 1960's Brazilian D-35S with a set of these. But they were not long enough to cover the outline and screw hole of the original tuners on the upper ends. I used them anyway, and told the customer that I could touch it up in the future, if he wanted. Otherwise, they would earn 5 stars, but only 3 1/2 for now...