kissing
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I want to change the stock friction tuners on my ukulele. I've removed one of the existing ones and note that the peghole is about 7mm (maybe 6.9mm) in diameter.
However, when looking for quality friction pegs... the peg hole diameter requirement is either too small (eg: Waverley 5-6mm) or too wide (eg: Gotoh and Grover are all 8-10mm).
Is my ukulele quite obscure?
*Yes I know people are probably thinking that I should buy a violin peg reamer to widen the peghole. However, in order to buy one locally in Australia I have to pay over $100... or else order from China which will take ages and is not guaranteed quality. I am preferring to avoid using a reamer due to costs and risk of modifying*
I did find these Gotoh UKB's, which state that a 7.2-7.4mm peg hole is required. This is the closest match yet.
However, I am concerned that they are budget tuners which won't really be an improvement to what I currently have. In fact, I think my uke probably has these very tuners installed already, so there would be no point in buying them.
However, when looking for quality friction pegs... the peg hole diameter requirement is either too small (eg: Waverley 5-6mm) or too wide (eg: Gotoh and Grover are all 8-10mm).
Is my ukulele quite obscure?
*Yes I know people are probably thinking that I should buy a violin peg reamer to widen the peghole. However, in order to buy one locally in Australia I have to pay over $100... or else order from China which will take ages and is not guaranteed quality. I am preferring to avoid using a reamer due to costs and risk of modifying*
I did find these Gotoh UKB's, which state that a 7.2-7.4mm peg hole is required. This is the closest match yet.
However, I am concerned that they are budget tuners which won't really be an improvement to what I currently have. In fact, I think my uke probably has these very tuners installed already, so there would be no point in buying them.
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