Another one for the gumpy-heads... Tuners!!

[Michael Ambrose]

I think it is now well-established that I'm mildly obsessed with the Supro Pocket bass... haha... and it seems each day I find a new oddity to knock me for a loop.

Today's conundrum involves tuners.

Now, everyone knows that these Pockets were notorious for their over-sized (and sadly inaccurate) Kluson bass tuners.

Mike Robinson has a National-branded Map-shaped pocket on his site that appears to have larger, Fender/Grover-style machines installed... and until this day I considered this an utter fluke, a frankie...

and now there's this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/60s-Airline-Pocket- ... 286.c0.m14

with this:
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Very typical bass tuners for the era, sans the clover-leaf keys...

...but on a Valco instrument???

If it were just the one bass, I'd shrug it off as a mod... but two?? Anyone else ever caught anything like this?

[hansmoust]