What tuners on my ‘08 Fern?

[danmills]

I need to replace a chipped button. What tuners are these?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yib06z8qkq...%20PM.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/76gvu5bxwd...%20PM.jpg?dl=0

Thanks,
Dan

[George R. Lane]

They look like Gibson Grovers to me. Wait until Mike Edgerton comments.

[danmills]

It’s a Gibson Fern, by the way. Should have mentioned that.

[Skip Kelley]

Those are indeed Gibson Grovers.

[MikeEdgerton]

Yes they are Gibson Grovers, if you need a tuner button try contacting Dave Harvey at Gibson at David.Harvey@gibson.com. The Gold Gibson Grovers had MOP buttons. Nobody sells replacements, Dave might still have some to help you out.

[Buck]

Unless the button is failing I see no reason to replace it. If there are other cracks, I'd repair them with fresh, thin CA and think no more of it.

[William Smith]

If it is chipped replace it, I was playing a few years ago at a school house and up on stage all of a sudden while playing my one D pearl button on my old gibson exploded, don't know why but it must've been cracked? What a pain had to get off stage walk back through a few hundred people and change it out.

[danmills]

I called Gibson customer support and if I understood correctly, they're sending me a replacement at no cost. We shall see, but if they do, that's awfully nice of them. I'm not the original owner of the mando.

Thanks all for your replies.

[MikeEdgerton]

If you got that out of Gibson Customer Support you did better than anyone has ever done with Gibson Customer support. If it doesn't work out e-mail David. He's the head of the mandolin department.

[danmills]

I never got anything from Gibson after all. However Frank Ford dug one up for me, and when he couldn't find a price for it on their computer he said, "I guess they must be free." While it's true that I had just spent a couple hundred on some other work, I still think that was awfully nice of him.