I wanted to replace my tuners on my D03 witch new Grover Sta-tites. I got the vintage style conversion bushings for 11/32 holes from StewMac but............... I was unpleasantly suprised to find that Larrivee has 10.5mm holes. ANYONE know of a source for 10.5mm conversion bushings??? I really want to avoid plugging and re-drilling...

Dark Paniel wrote this on another thread which may or may not help you:

QuoteGrover Sta-tites - A faux-vintage guitar would not be complete without a set of open back tuners... and so I decided to tackle this task myself as well. (Can you tell I was a bit bored... away from the forum?)  I ordered the tuners and the hex conversion bushings from stewmac (which by the way raised their price on the tuners.. like the day I ordered a set).  The installation was pretty straight forward.. I knew that I'd need to drill 12 new holes in the back of the headstock, but I didn't mind. (this guitar's a keeper for sure)  I also didn't want any holes left behind, so I went to Home Depot and bought a wood filler pencil thing.  I bought one that was supposed to be Red Cherry colored (I think) and it happened to match the color of the mahogany perfectly.  I filled the holes left behind from the ping tuners and installed the new Grovers.  A pretty simple mod that makes a huge difference aesthetically... and functionally, these tuners are definitely an upgrade from the stock pings.

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Perhaps you could contact him directly and find out more info as well.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff, Sounds like he might be my best source of info.

www.fqms.com (I'm pretty sure) or www.elderly.com (ditto) or www.stewmac.com (definitely, they have a $30 minimum but have a ton of other good stuff too).

Quote from: dleahy on April 18, 2006, 12:39:08 AM
Thanks Jeff, Sounds like he might be my best source of info.

Hey Dave, I replied to your email.


-dan