This isn't an issue however in swapping friction pegs as there are no screw holes. If they trouble you, it's a case of plugging them with thin dowel and matching the colour. Personally, I work on the basis that nobody ever sees them anyway (as they are on the back) and ignore them myself. One other point I am often asked about is what to do if you move from geared pegs to frictions and leave a screw hole from the geared peg. Of course, if you decide to go back to smaller pegs that's a much bigger job to reverse if you want to shrink the holes, but thankfully I knew from the start I wanted these UPT pegs, so don't plan to. In my case though, that would have been both long winded and likely to mis-shape the hole.
Now this is for a hole that needed widening by a fair amount - you may find that your new tuners nearly fit but not quite - for that sort of widening you may be able to do the job with some sandpaper wrapped around a pencil. Make sure you cover the back and front of the headstock in good masking tape to avoid the edges splitting and go very SLOWLY letting the reamer do the work. It leaves a very slight taper (very) in the hole, which isn't really an issue in practice as the headstock is not that thick, but if that bothers you, you simply run the reamer in from the other side and repeat. The reamer is on a long taper allowing you to create a variety of diameters, but in this case I needed to widen the holes to 10mm, which was the maximum on the reamer. Some would suggest using a drill or a rat tail file, but that is a sure fire way to cause the wood outer to split, or make the hole uneven. I used a luthiers / carpenters reamer pictured below to do the job. All you need to do is to widen them with the right tool for the job. In fact that was the case with the move from these Grovers to the Gotoh pegs - they needed a wider hole by about 1mm all diameter. I was asked however about the steps taken if you find new pegs don't fit in the holes left by the old ones. You simply unscrew one and fit the others directly - a two minute job. Now often a peg swap will allow you drop the new ones into the holes left by the old.
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