Tuning Machine Manufacturers - The Guitar Sherpa

Alessi Tuning Machines: Nicolo Alessi creates tuning machines for classical guitars. He offers a variety of 6 string, 10 string, nylon, steel, 12 string, and steel string tuning machines.Website: Alessi Tuning Machines

Experimental Musical Instruments: Experimental Musical Instruments offers a variety of tuning machines. These include economy and quality mid-sized, bass, friction, and classical guitar tuning machines.Website: Experimental Musical Instruments

Fender Tuning Machines: Fender has a variety of tuning machines in their catalog. They have chrome finish, brushed finish, staggered height array, gold non-staggered, and nickel plated styles.Website: Fender Tuning Machines

Gilbert Tuning Machines: Gilbert offers various customizable tuning machines. Their machines come with ebony, snakewood, or imitation Mother of Pearl knobs and Abalone, Mother of Pearl, snakewood, or ebony dots. You can also choose between black or gold plates.Website: Gilbert Tuning Machines

Grover Tuners: Grover offers rotomatic, locking rotomatic, vintage, classical, and bass tuners. The Rotomatic tuners have a gear ratio of 14:1 and come in nickel, chrome, black nickel, gold satin, gold, black chrome, and chrome satin. The nickel or gold Classic tuners come as a butterfly style with pearloid buttons and plastic coated string posts. The Bass tuners haev a gear ratio of 20:1 and come in 2 treble, 2 bass or 4-in-line styles.Website: Grover Tuners

Hip Shot products: Hip Shot offers chrome, black, and gold locking and regular tuning machines.Website: Hip Shot products

Kluson Tuners: Kluson offers a variety of tuning machines. Options include 3 on a side, 6 in a line, plastic buttons, pearl buttons, gold, and nickel varieties.Website: Kluson Tuners

Planet Waves: Planet Waves Auto-Trim tuner has a cutting tool for easy string cutting. It is available in chrome, black, and gold finishes.Website: Planet Waves

Platino Bass Tuning Machines: Palatino offers 24:1 gear ratio bass tuning machines in 3/4 size.Website: Platino Bass Tuning Machines

Robson Tuners: Keith Robson hand makes steel string tuners. These tuners feature bronze alloy gear wheels, string posts, and bushes, oval, Mother of Pearl, or hardwood buttons, and blackened gear center screws. Buttons are available in Mother of Pearl, boxwood, snakewood, ebony, cocobolo, boxwood, and faux ivory.Website: Robson Tuners

Rodgers Tuning Machines: Rodgers Machine Heads are hand built for mainly classical guitars but are available to steel string guitars, Staufer guitars, and Lacote style guitars. Each set of tuners is built to order using brass, nickel silver, or Sterling silver.Website: Rodgers Tuning Machines

Shaller Machine Heads: Schaller Electronic builds machine heads for the guitar, bass, classical guitar, mandolin, banjo, and ukelele.Website: Shaller Machine Heads

Sperzel Tuners: Positive tuning control.Website: Sperzel Tuners

Taylor Tuners: Taylor offers chrome plated and gold tuners, 12 string mini tuners, ebonoid buttons, and nylon series tuners.Website: Taylor Tuners

TonePros-Kluson: TonePros-Kluson offers various configurations of tuning machines. The TPK33 are classic 3 per side vintage style tuners. The TPKR3 are similar to the TPK33 but are in a 3 on a Rail style. The TPKB3 feature a 15:1 tuning ratio with a 3 per side style. The TPKB3L feature locking tuners with a 3 on a side style. The TPKF6B are designed for the 6 in line format. The TPKF6BL is similar to the TPKF6B but with locking tuners.Website: TonePros-Kluson

Ken Smith Bass Tuning Machines: Smith Tuning Machines are available in chrome, black, and gold.Website: Ken Smith Bass Tuning Machines