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Permalink Reply by gary sheldon on February 21, 2016 at 5:58pm

Probably a bad idea.  The knobs on the tuners need to be above the posts.  There are a couple of reasons for that.  #1 is that is how the tuner is built to operate best.  The second reason is that your left hand will probably be resting against the tuner knob when fretting on the first fret.  It becomes uncomfortable very fast.

Permalink Reply by Kigar on February 22, 2016 at 4:05pm

Thanks Gary, didn't even think about my hand hitting them.  I have pretty much talked myself down after looking at it again today, I want a playable instrument so I just need to deal with it.  I have a couple sets of tuners to work with and will just have to pick one and say I meant to do that!

Permalink Reply by gary sheldon on February 23, 2016 at 4:09am

I have been there.  we all learn from experience.  The tuner winder knob position is particularly critical on ukes due to the smaller fret spacing.