I'll look into the peg winder. I have open gear tuners, they aren't housed in anything. I think a reviewer of my same guitar model said that they replaced the tuners. The first one (first string) is a little on the loose side and the rest are kind of in between stiff and normal.
“Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.” Robert Brault, American Operatic Tenor
