haole
Well-known member
In what scientists are calling "impossibly stupid," I managed to break one of my KoAloha tenor's bridge pins while changing strings.
And I can't really justify buying a set of six bridge pins and paying five bucks in shipping just to replace one.
The originals are ivoroid with abalone dots; they look a lot like these, except for some reason they're slotted all the way through. They actually have two separate prongs on the bottom (like old-fashioned clothes pins), and one of them snapped off. I don't think that it matters much either way. I have some old guitar pins that are too thin to sit properly in the bridge; the ones in the uke are between .200" and .210" wide at the point right below the little collar thing.
If you have any spare bridge pins laying around that you'd be willing to part with, please let me know! I'm not too picky about color/material as long as they all match. A matched set? A single one that looks like the one I broke? It's all good. Not looking for a handout; I'll pay!
Thanks in advance!
And I can't really justify buying a set of six bridge pins and paying five bucks in shipping just to replace one.
The originals are ivoroid with abalone dots; they look a lot like these, except for some reason they're slotted all the way through. They actually have two separate prongs on the bottom (like old-fashioned clothes pins), and one of them snapped off. I don't think that it matters much either way. I have some old guitar pins that are too thin to sit properly in the bridge; the ones in the uke are between .200" and .210" wide at the point right below the little collar thing.
If you have any spare bridge pins laying around that you'd be willing to part with, please let me know! I'm not too picky about color/material as long as they all match. A matched set? A single one that looks like the one I broke? It's all good. Not looking for a handout; I'll pay!
Thanks in advance!