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Gary Kelley


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Pine Hill New Jersey
Post  Posted 27 Feb 2012 10:16 am    
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Need a replacement for a old National round neck dobro


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Brad Bechtel


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Post  Posted 28 Feb 2012 9:36 am    
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They look similar to these tuners sold by Stewart-Macdonald, but you may be able to just purchase replacement tuner buttons and replace just the button if the tuner still works otherwise.
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Michael Lee Allen

 

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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
Post  Posted 28 Feb 2012 10:01 am    
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Just an educated guess, that looks like the "National Resophonic Repro" imported from Japan by Strum & Drum in Wheeling, Illinois circa 1970-71-72. If so, those tuners were very common on Japanese guitars of the period, mostly Les Paul copies and imitations of various Gibson flat-top guitars. Several companies have modern reproductions, the buttons were common on original Gibsons, and old Japanese ones still turn up in repair shop's scrap tuner bins or drawers if you ask and have a sample with you to compare.
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Gary Kelley


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Post  Posted 28 Feb 2012 4:41 pm     National Machine Heads
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Thanks alot guys for the information. As always the brotherhood of the Steel Guitar Forum comes through again. Thanks
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