The contoured head design fits virtually all tuning pegs both big & small, & its narrow profile keeps you from hitting close-fitted pegs on electric guitars. The innovative rubber-lined head smoothly & silently slips over your tuning pegs for a scratch-free & clank-free operation compared to traditional plastic peg winders. No feature is overlooked, starting with the precision bearing design they invented in 2016 that makes turning the handle effortless, silent & super fast. All he’d left them was just guitars in tattered cases and box after box of records and CDs. The nephew, who looked like a former GQ model, made it obvious the family considered their uncle little more than a loveable loser with no family and no nice cars or furnishings. We hadn’t seen Jimmie in at least 20 years-retirement and failing health had taken their toll-but I recognized some of his instruments when a middle-aged guy and his teenage daughter brought in several guitars for appraisal. He wasn’t attracted to instruments in mint condition, partly because he didn’t want to pay the higher prices, but mostly because, as he put it, “I like to see some wear then I don’t worry if I add a little more of it.” Jimmie wasn’t a great musician and never gigged, but he knew his way around a guitar neck and never resorted to “Blackbird” or “Stairway to Heaven” when trying out guitars. It was clear he visited other Bay Area guitar shops as well.

Back in the 1980s and ’90s, we had a regular customer named Jimmie who was one of our favorite Saturday guys.

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