Aging the Look of Budget Tuning Machines

2024
AL#153 p.70               
Aaron Cash                                                                                           

▪ Here’s how to mess up a perfectly good set of tuners without messing them up. It’s funny, but this process of distressing part of a new instrument to fit a certain received aesthetic is pretty much what fiddle makers have been doing for a couple centuries and getting paid handsomely for it. I guess we’re on the right track now.