Re: Vintage Supertone Mandolin - Replacing Tuner Machines
Originally Posted by
MikeEdgerton
...Sears changed their brand name.
To Silvertone, I believe. Catalog brands like that -- and Airline, which was the Montgomery Ward brand -- were put on instruments from a variety of manufacturers.
It is possible to put new tuner knobs on the existing shafts. You could try lubricating the current tuners, using pliers to rotate the shafts, and see if they start turning freely again. Glueing on new knobs would be less expensive, and would -- for what it's worth -- keep the mandolin more "original."
Allen Hopkins
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