Recommend Ebay source for tuners and binding to learn with...

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Hi Folks,

Long time lurker and slowly learning reader of these pages.
I was wondering if anyone has some recommended sources on ebay for friction tuners and bindings. As I seem to best learn from my mistakes, I would like to keep the costs of some of the mistakes and the resultant 'consumables' down.
(edit: - I am based in europe, just in case that skews recommendations)

I have run a few searches, and have come up short - hopefully this post is not too much of a bother.

Thanks all, for this and all the learning I have taken from these pages on and off in the past few years.
 
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1- Go to eBay
2- type in binding,
3- Select lowest price to highest price
4- pick that one.

:)
 
Brett S. said:
I don't know about the pegs, but I bought celluloid and ABS binding from Amazon that was reasonably priced, but I did pay extra for faster shipping.
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Oh cool - do you know which vendor you used?
 
Beau Hannam Ukuleles said:
1- Go to eBay
2- type in binding,
3- Select lowest price to highest price
4- pick that one.

:)
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Thats where I was at before the post lol - Nice to know now that that is not the silliest way to go.
Any idea on ebay grover-esque friction tuners? - I find this a little more daunting than the binding suppliers
 
steveholt said:
Oh cool - do you know which vendor you used?
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I'll see if I can figure it out.

Regarding the pegs: I bought some cheap Grover like tuners (not the peg type) to check them out, and my opinion is they are not worth the savings. Grover's are less than $15. To me replacing tuning machines in the future because I wanted to save $8 would be frustrating.
 
I did buy some cheap Chinese Grover like friction tuners from an Ebay seller, a while back, and as stated above they're not worth the saving. In fact they were rubbish and wouldn't hold tuning, no matter how much I tightened them.
 
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