Many years ago, when I got my first guittar with Preston machines, Martin Haycock arranged for a craftsperson at West Dean College of instrument making to refurbish the mechanism. I don't know who that was, but apparently he knew a lot about the system. He did a first-class job.
Rob www.rmguitar.info -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Batov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 December 2007 01:07 To: cittern list Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Preston tuner history On Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:33 AM Martina Rosenberger wrote: > I have another question. > As you have seen more than one Preston in your work: were there > differences between the brass cases? If they had a "production line" look, > I assume none. > Were the threads always the same? Were they in the same condition or were > there problems with some of them (rust, oxidation, anything...) > This will not help with the dating, but gives a clue to the way of making > them........ Hello Martina, Well, I wish I paid more attention to such fine features at the time. It never even occurred to me that anybody will be interested in watch tuners (I certainly wasn't) ... but as I've already said Preston's all looked pretty much identical. The Hoffmann's had a rather worn look (both the treads and their square ends too, some almost totally rounded and so could only be turned with a smaller size keys). Alexander -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
