Hi Folks,
I'm restoring a '24 serial numbered L5. The original hardware is long gone. I figure I can find a tailpiece from an L4 and can have a bridge and pickguard made, but the tuners are going to be tricky.
This guitar had the early style tuners (3-on-a-plate, with the wheel gear below the tuning shaft) that Gibson stopped using some time in '25. I want to know if any one has any suggestions for a source for having tuners made. I tried Stew-Mac (Waverly) but they gently declined my query!
Of course, if any body has a source for original parts that they'd like to tell me about, I'd be overwhelmingly grateful, as well.
Thanks, Harry in Texas