fender tuners are awesome tuners

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:31 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/very-rare-1968-Fend ... dZViewItem

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:43 am

Shit those are awesome. Fender needs to make interesting crap like this again.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:04 am

how come no one seems to care about patenting anything anymore? you see patent numbers (or pending) over all this old stuff but not anymore. and things that were patented (humbuckers?) are used by everyone now.

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:37 am

They're Grover tuners with a Fender F on them.

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:08 am

That whoel guitar makes me think of Disney' Davey crocket and other 60's wilderness shows. Don't ask why. It just seems like some big bearded C-list celeb, long ofrgotten in the sands of time, should be playing it on the porch of a log cabin in a pine forest, teaching about hibernation and how dangerous wolves are and thank god for the hunters who shooot them.

euan · Post by **euan** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:02 am

mage wrote:how come no one seems to care about patenting anything anymore? you see patent numbers (or pending) over all this old stuff but not anymore. and things that were patented (humbuckers?) are used by everyone now.

It is a patent pending number. Once you have the patent you don't need the number.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:24 am

look like banjo tuner buttons -1
no split shaft -1
look like something off a gibson -1

Do not WaNt

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:34 am

euan wrote:
mage wrote:how come no one seems to care about patenting anything anymore? you see patent numbers (or pending) over all this old stuff but not anymore. and things that were patented (humbuckers?) are used by everyone now.
It is a patent pending number. Once you have the patent you don't need the number.

so are people paying gibson for the rights to make humbuckers? because the amount of companies that make them are pretty extensive.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:35 pm

That whole guitar is abnor

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:04 am

So Wildwoods had an upgrade. Fuckers!

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:22 am

i played an antigua coronado with those special issue tuners on it, and altho it looked kool and unique, i still missed the look/ feel of the fender f-keys of the day. or better yet, the klusons from yesteryear.

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:52 am

light rail coyote wrote:look like banjo tuner buttons -1
no split shaft -1
look like something off a gibson -1

Do not WaNt

yeah, i like the split shaft tuners too, stop you piercing your finger

matocaster · Post by **matocaster** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:07 am

Wow I want a set!!!

astro · Post by **astro** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:34 am

mage wrote:
euan wrote:
mage wrote:how come no one seems to care about patenting anything anymore? you see patent numbers (or pending) over all this old stuff but not anymore. and things that were patented (humbuckers?) are used by everyone now.
It is a patent pending number. Once you have the patent you don't need the number.
so are people paying gibson for the rights to make humbuckers? because the amount of companies that make them are pretty extensive.

Patents eventually expire, and then anybody can make copies of the idea.

nsv · Post by **nsv** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:16 am

Those wildwoods were strange but cool.