igorthebarbarian
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I recently ordered a set of Deluxe Friction Tuners from Mike at Mainland for $19.95:
http://shop.mainlandukuleles.com/category.sc?categoryId=5
I got the gold ones with amber buttons.
I swapped them out on my Kala Travel Tenor uke tonight. I am definitely not what anyone would call "handy" - very far from it! But it probably took a little over an hour for me to do. It was fairly easy. The hardest part was finding a small enough screwdriver to take out the tiny screws on the back of the old geared tuners. The new ones left, but no biggie.
I think I have the G & C tuners lined up wrong/backwards (see pictures). They tune 'up' toward the headstock correctly, but they don't seem perfectly aligned (hard to explain). For example, my C string is too close to the G tuning peg. But I am sure that is user-error on my part!
These Mainland tuners are nice and look really good on the Kala Travel Tenor. I thought the geared tuners that it came with with super-heavy, and made the headstock top-heavy. That is no longer an issue. The uke still fits in its own Kala case. Mike stated that they may need tightening in the future.
http://shop.mainlandukuleles.com/category.sc?categoryId=5
I got the gold ones with amber buttons.
I swapped them out on my Kala Travel Tenor uke tonight. I am definitely not what anyone would call "handy" - very far from it! But it probably took a little over an hour for me to do. It was fairly easy. The hardest part was finding a small enough screwdriver to take out the tiny screws on the back of the old geared tuners. The new ones left, but no biggie.
I think I have the G & C tuners lined up wrong/backwards (see pictures). They tune 'up' toward the headstock correctly, but they don't seem perfectly aligned (hard to explain). For example, my C string is too close to the G tuning peg. But I am sure that is user-error on my part!
These Mainland tuners are nice and look really good on the Kala Travel Tenor. I thought the geared tuners that it came with with super-heavy, and made the headstock top-heavy. That is no longer an issue. The uke still fits in its own Kala case. Mike stated that they may need tightening in the future.