Idea for Fluke Tuners

[Jerryc41]

I got a new (old) Fluke, and I want to put geared tuners on it. I bought a nice black set, but the shafts are so long that they would butt into each other. I could grind the ends down, but I thought of another solution. I could fill the tuner holes with dowels and drill new holes, offset. The tuners would be staggered and not interfere with each other.

I have other tuners coming eventually, so I'll see how they fit. I like the idea of the staggered tuners, though. I've never seen that before. This will become a Winter Fluke when I do some painting on the top.

 

[Uke-alot]

I got a new (old) Fluke, and I want to put geared tuners on it. I bought a nice black set, but the shafts are so long that they would butt into each other. I could grind the ends down, but I thought of another solution. I could fill the tuner holes with dowels and drill new holes, offset. The tuners would be staggered and not interfere with each other.

I have other tuners coming eventually, so I'll see how they fit. I like the idea of the staggered tuners, though. I've never seen that before. This will become a Winter Fluke when I do some painting on the top.

It should work. I did look into changing out friction tuners on a Flea and I believe some good general advice is that there's not a lot of meat in the peg head of these and you shouldn't use tuners that require much bigger holes than the originals.

 

[badhabits]

the cricket has offset tuners, so they have done it before, albeit a different instrument

 

[Ken W]

If you do fill and then drill new holes, I suggest using facegrain plugs instead of endgrain dowels. I’m pretty sure Stew Mac has a video on how to do this. Plug cutters, which you need for this process, are readily available and fairly inexpensive.

 

[Michael Smith]

I believe I have put Peghead tuners in a friends Fluke before, but I can't remember for sure. But it seems right.

 

[BradDonaldson]

Fluke sells and installs PegHed tuners on their ukuleles. The nice thing about them is these are shorter bodied PegHeds made especially for ukuleles. I use them exclusively when I install them on ukuleles.

 

[Uke-alot]

Fluke sells and installs PegHed tuners on their ukuleles. The nice thing about them is these are shorter bodied PegHeds made especially for ukuleles. I use them exclusively when I install them on ukuleles.

My Fluke came with PegHed tuners and I've been happy with them over 3+ years.

 

[Graham Greenbag]

I got a new (old) Fluke, and I want to put geared tuners on it. I bought a nice black set, but the shafts are so long that they would butt into each other. I could grind the ends down, but I thought of another solution. I could fill the tuner holes with dowels and drill new holes, offset. The tuners would be staggered and not interfere with each other.

I have other tuners coming eventually, so I'll see how they fit. I like the idea of the staggered tuners, though. I've never seen that before. This will become a Winter Fluke when I do some painting on the top.

As the shafts are too long surely the simplest modification is to pack the tuners out (sideways) from the head. I’d be tempted to glue two long strips onto the head (one per side) and add a few necessary holes for the shafts and the tuners’ screws, etc.