Hipshot Grip-Lock Vintage 6 Inline Staggered Closed 8.5mm Tuners with Universal Mounting Plate, Chrome

This is a genuine, factory-fresh Vintage 6 Inline Headstock Staggered Upgrade Kit for 8.5 mm vintage headstock holes. Improve your vintage-style guitar's tuning stability without screwing up or drilling your headstock! Our vintage style Guitar Tuner Upgrade Kit is specifically Designed for vintage or vintage style guitars with 8.5mm headstock holes and press in bushings. With other modern tuners, you will have to drill your headstock holes out to 10mm. Now you can take advantage of the technology behind our Grip-Lock Closed tuners in either staggered or non-staggered post configration WITHOUT the compromise! Upgrade your tuners and improve the tuning accuracy and stability of your 6 Inline headstock guitar with Hipshot's Tuner Upgrade Kit. With the patent pending UMP(Universal Mount Plate) included free in this kit, tuners will install without drilling or screwing your headstock . The kit is also available with a wide array of button options. Fits most 6 inline headstocks including all Fender Strat, Tele, Squier etc with vintage 8.5 mm (rather than 10 mm) tuner holes. Tuners in this kit are staggered post/graduated. Let's face it, upgrading your guitar's tuners is only slightly less of a hassle than dealing with the old, worn out, inaccurate or broken tuners you have now! Finding the right aftermarket tuners that match up with your guitar's mounting hole pattern can be a guessing game and if your new tuners don't match, you're stuck drilling new holes, filling the old holes and screwing in the new tuners. The UMP is a patent pending adapter plate that fits between your Hipshot tuners and the headstock of your guitar. Tabs on the face of the plate prevent the tuners from slipping against the headstock. At the same time, reach nuts inserted through the existing headstock holes into the tuners keep the whole assembly securely in place. This means that the tuners, interlocking as one unit, use the headstock holes themselves for stability rather than in