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What type of bass is it? If it's US built the chances are it will be an imperial size. Anything else most likely metric. Using the allen keys you already have you can then narrow down the size to be somewhere between the ones that are too big and too small.

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On 20/09/2022 at 14:17, stewblack said:

Thank you all. I should have said I don't want another set as I have so many already. And it's a new bass (or was last year - either way not rounded off) but made by a luthier who has ceased trading so I can't ask.

 

 

Have you got both metric and imperial sets?

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As mentioned above, have you tried using the allen keys you already have to narrow down the size? Metric sets usually increment in 0.5mm steps so if none of these fit then it's most likely an imperial size. If you can identify the metric size that's just too big and the one that's just too small, that should give you a pretty good bead on the imperial size which will be some multiple of 1/64".  Here are a few imperial to metric conversions. It's easy to see how imperial sizes slip between the metric keys, and not all imperial sets will include odd ones like 7/64 or 9/64 etc.

 

7/64 = 2.778125

1/8 = 3.175

9/64 = 3.571875

 

 

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