I wasted two cheap forks trying to bend them to work for the tailpieces on this one and finally gave up on them. I remembered seeing others using old hinges and looked around a bit before finding some spring loaded cabinet hinges. Took one apart, Dremeled excess parts off, then mounted it to the neck. The holes were too large to keep the string balls from going through, so I just looped them around. It's not perfect and it's my first time to have to string them that way on any instrument I own.
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I wasted two cheap forks trying to bend them to work for the tailpieces on this one and finally gave up on them. I remembered seeing others using old hinges and looked around a bit before finding some spring loaded cabinet hinges. Took one apart, Dremeled excess parts off, then mounted it to the neck. The holes were too large to keep the string balls from going through, so I just looped them around. It's not perfect and it's my first time to have to string them that way on any instrument I own.