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*SOLD* FS/Schaller BM Bass tuners (never used)

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Musicman_93Musicman_93 Frets: 4
edited April 2023 in Parts £
Bought for a project that didn't happen so have never been used.
£55 posted
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    As your second photograph confirms, what you have is Schaller BM bass tuners. 

    They are a direct retrofit for Musicman and some Rickenbacker. (The shafts are too short for most Fender/Squier basses.) It is a quick screwdriver job to reverse the handing from 4-in-line to 3+1 or  2x2.
    Be seeing you.
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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4680
    Funkfingers said:
    As your second photograph confirms, what you have is Schaller BM bass tuners. 

    They are a direct retrofit for Musicman and some Rickenbacker. (The shafts are too short for most Fender/Squier basses.) It is a quick screwdriver job to reverse the handing from 4-in-line to 3+1 or  2x2.

    I'm calling BS!

    (Only kidding, as someone had to say it!) :-)
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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4680
    edited March 2023
    ...however, do they fit any Rics?
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  • Musicman_93Musicman_93 Frets: 4
    Funkfingers said:
    As your second photograph confirms, what you have is Schaller BM bass tuners. 

    They are a direct retrofit for Musicman and some Rickenbacker. (The shafts are too short for most Fender/Squier basses.) It is a quick screwdriver job to reverse the handing from 4-in-line to 3+1 or  2x2.
    Ahh my bad! Thanks for that.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    edited March 2023
    prowla said:
    ...however, do they fit any Rics?
    I did offer a Schaller BM up to my mid-Seventies 4001* but it has push-in bushings on the front of the headstock rather than threaded hex nuts. I was loth to ream the holes. Also, I am accustomed to the reverse gearing of the originals.

    Your question reminds me that Schaller BM 'heads fit EBMM bass guitars but not the Sterling-by-Musicman versions.



    * This would have been during the most recent string change. A distant memory! My only clear recollection is from that time is fending off pterodactyls
    Be seeing you.
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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4680
    Funkfingers said:
    prowla said:
    ...however, do they fit any Rics?
    I did offer a Schaller BM up to my mid-Seventies 4001* but it has push-in bushings on the front of the headstock rather than threaded hex nuts. I was loth to ream the holes. Also, I am accustomed to the reverse gearing of the originals.

    Your question reminds me that Schaller BM 'heads fit EBMM bass guitars but not the Sterling-by-Musicman versions.



    * This would have been during the most recent string change. A distant memory! My only clear recollection is from that time is fending off pterodactyls
    I think the posts are wider on these than Rics. 
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