Hello! First post here as someone who just bought a Makala MK Concert uke yesterday from a local music store.
Having some acoustic guitar experience, I picked out one where the setup was decent. But after I got it home, I'm noticing a buzz that I'm pretty sure is coming from the plastic disc around the C string tuner. Each of the tuners has this little plastic collar that floats on the shaft between the string and the peghead, and they're all loose enough to slide up and down when I flip the instrument over.
Can't see how these collars serve any purpose. Am I missing something? To take them off I'll have to remove the strings, or maybe I could cut them off with some side-cut pliers. But before I go modifying my brand new (cheap, but otherwise satisfactory) instrument, I want to know if anyone else has experienced this, and what they've done about it.
Thanks!
Jack
Having some acoustic guitar experience, I picked out one where the setup was decent. But after I got it home, I'm noticing a buzz that I'm pretty sure is coming from the plastic disc around the C string tuner. Each of the tuners has this little plastic collar that floats on the shaft between the string and the peghead, and they're all loose enough to slide up and down when I flip the instrument over.
Can't see how these collars serve any purpose. Am I missing something? To take them off I'll have to remove the strings, or maybe I could cut them off with some side-cut pliers. But before I go modifying my brand new (cheap, but otherwise satisfactory) instrument, I want to know if anyone else has experienced this, and what they've done about it.
Thanks!
Jack