I have bought a Mandola made by a Vietnamese luthier. The instrument is nice but the tuners are quite bad (some brand called "Yibuy"). I found them to be selling on Ali-Express, and here is a link:
https://www.###############/item/400...c00MWaING&mp=1
I would like to change the tuners and would be really happy if it was possible to just unwscrew the old set and screw-in a better one. However, it seems that the distance from screw-to-screw and peg-to-peg is about 25mm while any other brand I checked, Grover 309 for example (which I considered), have a distance of around 23 mm.
These are the specs on the site :
Brand name: Yibuy
Pegs pitch: approx. 25mm/0.98"
Mainboard to the hole distance: approx. 22.5mm/0.89"
Overall Size:approx. 115 x 38 x 42mm/4.53 x 1.50 x 1.65"(L x W x H)
Weight: 202g
Anybody knows of some good, compatible set of tuners (e.g., with 25 mm distance), up to 75$ ?
Any other suggestions? How complicated would it be to change to the Grovers, for example, taking into account the differences in distances? Should I consider individual tuners instead of rows of 4, perhaps?
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