Hi all,
I have a 2004 MIM strat and I was wondering if Gotoh Kluson type tuners will fit my strat without having to make the holes any bigger. This is my only guitar at the moment and i couldn't see myself drilling this thing.

If your MIM is a standard strat, then I think you will have the opposite problem with the size of the tuner holes. A standard strat may have larger holes than the vintage type klusons.

It is a standard MIM strat, so how then can I get some Kluson tuners to fit? Do they have some sort of bushing to make the hole size smaller?

You can find oversized bushings to adapt the Kluson or other vintage-spec tuners to a MIM Standard headstock on Ebay. Less than $10 IIRC. Once installed, they look no different than standard vintage bushings -- the visible extruded rim remains the same size, only the wall thickness of the barrel is increased to hold the slimmer shafts of the vintage tuners snug.

HTH

Arjay

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Here are links to a set of conversion bushings from Guitar Fetish and Stewmac.

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Nickel-Vint ... _559.html#

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Tune ... shing.html

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