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Originally Posted by Slothead56
Never got around to changing them before selling the guitar and buying my Gurian JR, which has closed back Schallers.
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I was marveling the other day at how smoothly, precisely, and securely the Schallers work on my Gurian. Does it have anything to do with being closed? Or are they just well made?
Since that was my only guitar for decades, I developed a suspicion that open tuners could accumulated dust or grit and become less sensitive. And the places I brought my Gurian in the early days might well have built up grit in open tuners. Now, of course, I treat my guitars as fine instruments, like my tools, so they aren’t exposed to gritty environments.
All four of the other acoustics — even the granddaddy 0-18 — have open tuners. I even switched the closed Grover strap set to open Waverlys on my J-45. Not because they were open, I just thought the factory set was fussy to dial in and I wanted to go with 21:1 ratio.
But the Schallers stay.