Wilcock Mullarkey Hipshot Bass Extender D-Tuner solution?

[sumeursault]

I'd imagine there are a good handful of Wilcock owners on here. He uses these Gotoh GB528 Res-O-Lite tuners, and to my knowledge Hipshot doesn't make a drop in replacement D-Tuner for these. Has anyone figured out a good solution for this? I'm considering going with something that has a smaller footprint so that the original tuner can be replaced and have it cover any additional holes. Sucks that Hipshot doesn't make these...

 

[coreyfyfe]

The hipshot model was the GB5, they're discontinued as they can no longer get the gotoh bodies to make them. I found some old sales on reverb, you could try setting up alerts there and/or ebay and see if one pops up. I would shoot hipshot an email and get their opinion on the fit of one of the ultralite models if you can't get ahold of a GB5.

GB5 Bass Xtender™

Retrofits Gotoh GB528 tuning machines. <h6>We are no longer able to acquire GB528 bass tuners from Gotoh. Therefore, we have to discontinue this model. We no longer stock the components to retrofit existing tuning machines. This page is for informational purposes only. </h6>

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