Gibson
Flying
V Tuners
Although many V's
out
there have had tuners changed, I will try to present an accurate
picture
of what is thought to have been on guitars leaving the factories.
In 1958 the tuners
were
Kluson gold plated single ring (1 ring at the smaller end of the
perloid
tulip buttons) tulip tuners
The 1967 and 1971
Medalion
guitars were equiped with either :
-
Kluson Deluxe
(Double ring
Tulip) single line meaning that "Kluson Deluxe" was written in a single
line on the casing with the D-169400 patent number
The tulip knobs are
closer from the casing than on the Gibson Deluxe hereafter version
-
Gibson Deluxe
(Double
ring Tulip) double line ("Gibson" written vertically on 1 line and
"Deluxe"
on another)
1975 to 1978 Flying
V's
had aluminium Tulip Gibson Deluxe Kluson tuners with smaller
brushings:
1978 to 1981 Tulip
tuners
(plastic with a silver metal coating) with a solid casing including the
Gibson Flowery logo and wide brushings
In 1981 Gibson
started
using unmarked Shaller oiled tuners
1981 V Bass
tuners
are Schaller bass tuners :
1983 Designer, 1984 to
1989, 89/90 V90 double, 98 Limited Editions, Gothic use Grover oiled
tuners
(type rotomatic)
1998 - 2002 Korinas,
Historic
67, Lenny Kravitz, 67 reissue etc, use Kluson manufactured Gibson
Deluxe
perloid tulip (single ring) tuners
1981-83 Heritages :
similar
but unmarked, manufacturd by Schaller
