So the a correct match to the old tuners would be such a nickel plated set with ivoroid buttons If you are referring to original Waverly tuners as used at a 1928 000-45 these were nickel plated with ivoroid celluloid buttons like these mounted at a 1928 000-45 (in the end it's the guitar you once owned?):Ĭlose up picture of the same tuners on a 1929 000-28 I can provide with correct pearl buttons but I need to check out what kind of hole is needed. Do we talk about the tuners of this guitar? These are the new Waverlys. I think Moritz Sattler used the three-on-a-plate casted Waverlys previously named Sloane tuners for this guitars but I could be wrong. It takes a little patience and time but replicating a tuner button by hand is possible. But if you have a pic it will be of help in any case. I suppose these tuner buttons you are looking for are special and should be made possibly by hand. Here are some real pieces of art taken from several sites, mostly from Frank Ford's museum site and from Dan Beimborn and the Mandolin Archive:
We often talked about rude pearl inlays but these makers didn't have any laser and computer.
When looking at such tuner buttons I don't understand why people think the golden era of instrument making came back. It must be something like melting the material possibly be heat and pressing the pearl into the softened botton. While the wire could be inlaid by engraving easily the pearl inlay can't be done the common way. It is silver wire used and small pearl figures - some simple dots, some stars and some blossoms. I thought I had seem some made out of bone which would indicate they were inlaid the common way. I checked out some various Handel tuners and most of them seem to be celluloid not bone.
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