homemade tuning pegs?
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BobN
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I found this tutorial:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cookie-Tin-Banjo-Part-3-Make-Tuning-Pegs-from-Scr/
It seems like making your own would would take hours of work. It would be cool to make a set out of bone.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cookie-Tin-Banjo-Part-3-Make-Tuning-Pegs-from-Scr/
It seems like making your own would would take hours of work. It would be cool to make a set out of bone.
Timbuck
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Get some of these Hardwood dowels http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/200-Hardwood-...Scrapbooking_Glue_Tape_EH&hash=item2c53523584
Put a taper on them via Drill press..cut a slot in one end and glue in a biscuit...drill a small hole for string
and Bobs yer Uncle.
Put a taper on them via Drill press..cut a slot in one end and glue in a biscuit...drill a small hole for string
and Bobs yer Uncle.
Moore Bettah Ukuleles
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I used to make them out of fossil walrus ivory. Still have a few. The hardest part is getting the taper prefect. It's a labor of love.
ksquine
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I don't make pegs....But I like Timbuck's drillpress idea.
Cut a piece of scrap at 5deg and glue sand paper to it. Then chuck the dowel in the drillpress and use the taperred sanding block to sand in the taper. I guess you could even use a square block and tilt the drillpress table.
The button could be a contrasting wood too....match your binding scheme.
Hmmm....maybe my next project will have pegs
Cut a piece of scrap at 5deg and glue sand paper to it. Then chuck the dowel in the drillpress and use the taperred sanding block to sand in the taper. I guess you could even use a square block and tilt the drillpress table.
The button could be a contrasting wood too....match your binding scheme.
Hmmm....maybe my next project will have pegs
Sven
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I use nothing but wooden pegs, but I buy them online for around a dollar each. I ordrr them from metmusic.com together with saddle blanks of bone. Of course shipping and taxes cost some but it's still cheaper for me than to buy them here. I use the smallest size, 1/4.
But the reamer... that is EXPENSIVE.
Sven
But the reamer... that is EXPENSIVE.
Sven
JT_Ukes
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Vic D
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Badump bump! LOL.
I have way more time than money.
My problem is that I have never actually seen the pegs (or a ukulele that wasn't made by myself ha), just the machine heads. It actually seems a lot easier than I had first thought. A drill press is one of the few tools I have...will try it out.
thanks everyone
My problem is that I have never actually seen the pegs (or a ukulele that wasn't made by myself ha), just the machine heads. It actually seems a lot easier than I had first thought. A drill press is one of the few tools I have...will try it out.
thanks everyone
