Who is Making Stauffer Replicas?

[David LaPlante]

Hi all,
I'm interested in doing a quick survey here to see how much activity there is on this front.
I know that David Schramm, Scot Tremblay and Bernhard Kresse make these.
Anyone else out there?
Also, a question for Scot or David, are you using the the Gotoh version of the Vienna tuners or the Rodgers version? What is the approximate cost of these and are there any other repro tuners available out there?

Thanks!

[Ernie Kleinman]

I think michael thames?? , not sure , you will have to check his website ?

[Scot Tremblay]

Hey David. I actually didn't know there was a Gotoh version of the Stauffer tuner. Do you have a link to it or information? I know Martin makes them for their early Martin copies but I'm not sure if they sell them. I tried to find out but my emails weren't replied to so....who knows!

I use Rubner as my standard and Rodgers for special order. The Rubners are about $350.00 and the Rodgers at least double that (I just received an order from Rodgers and I'd have to look in my files for the exact price).

There's a fair number of European guys making Stauffers. Martin de Witte is one and makes his own tuners. He might sell the tuners too, I don't know. You'd have to contact him and ask.

I don't think Michael is...yet, but might. I think he's very busy with his Dresden model these days.

You can also go with the figure eight and pegs, Stauffer did, and it gives a nice balance to the guitar. There were a number of Stauffer style Viennese guitars (I think Stauffer may have made some like that too) with the three to a side tuners (I have one in my collection that's not by Stauffer but a contemporary) so that's another option.

[waitswatcher]

Gary Southwell builds the Stauffer model as well.

http://www.southwellguitars.co.uk/stauffer.shtml

[Scot Tremblay]

Ok, I just did some checking on the Gotoh tuners made for Martin. From what I've read it would appear that Gotoh has an exclusive deal with Martin for the tuners on the "Martin 00 Stauffer Guitar" and neither company will sell them individually. And the 00 Stauffer is only being issued as a limited edition of 50 instruments.

So, it's no wonder I didn't get an answer to my quiry from Martin and we can check them off as a source for the Stauffer tuners.

[Guitar]

If anyone can bang out some dimensional drawings, I could look into having a run done of perhaps 100.
They wouldn't be cheap, but they would be high quality (and at least they'd exist).

I don't know how the engraving issue would be handled. It could be acid-etched for cost savings, but it wouldn't have the hand-done appearance of the originals, which purists might want (if they're willing to pay for it)