Problem: Tuning machine part fell off

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I like black headstock without big gold circles on it; although I still wanted gold tuners.
Just my way of small personalisation.

OK, so it is called tailpiece ..

Before they arrived, I assumed construction will be 100% the same (it is NOT) so I planned to retain even that big black screw above tailpiece. But, construction is totally different so Warwick black screw above tailpiece wouldn't fit even in a dream. If I managed to do that, I would have much smaller golden dots on headstock but, hey, I am very satisfied right now. When compared with installed gold tailpiece, this small shift visually made great difference although it is not logic, visually it is much different, the way I like.

Before buying bass from Adrian, I even planned to buy light customised bass and one of few ideas was to have different hardware colour on the body/headstock. Why ? No reason, just, there is no reason not to do it so I did it and now I am sure I like it.
 

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The tailpiece is that part of the bridge that keeps the strings, you know? So you have Gold tuners and tailpiece and black bridge :) Could look nice :)
 

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Ha ha ha obviously I don't know what is tailpiece :roll:
 
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WEll, gosh dagnabit, it just happened again tuning up at a show. 10 mins before show pop. I was screwed and had to run and get another bass. So pissed. Why can't they make these better? Anyone have a spare laying around in gold for a G string by chance?
 
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Order placed. Thank you for helping me.

6 new Gotoh GB7 it is. Now I wait to see are those GB7 as scarce.
Meanwhile, good old StingRay comes out of the case.

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Funny, I just played my stingray in lieu of my broken Wick because of the tuner. So frustrating that I have had cheap crap basses that are more reliable than this achllies heal high end bass. Granted I play my Proline exclusively and my last broken tuner was replaced by WW for free. Just hope they can do it again.
 
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...sorry that is happen to you..for me thats a spare part and it costs only 6-10 € per Tuner..so if you want higher quality buy Schaller or Gotoh Tuners....or 5-6 extra spare Part Tuners from Warwick ;)
 
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All I can is for every show:
- Bring a spare tuner
- Bring a spare bass
- Bring a spare cable

That will get you through 99.9999% of problems.

Things break.
 
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I agree, plus sometimes one catches a bad batch. I had to have my Framus tuner ground because a sharp edge would catch and cut the string on the low E, once done it has been fine :)
 
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I agree, plus sometimes one catches a bad batch. I had to have my Framus tuner ground because a sharp edge would catch and cut the string on the low E, once done it has been fine :)

Yeah, well 3 down and 1 more to go if I got a bad batch which seems the case since no same 2 have broken.
 

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Tuners break by accident too, once a tech tuned my B string one octave higher, and ruined my big ass MusicMan tuner. Other time, my bass felt on the head and broke the nut. ♣♣♣♣ happens anyway, you should carry spare parts to be sure.
 
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