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Anders Eliasson
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Joined: Oct. 18 2006
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RE: Flamenco headstock type (in reply to krichards)
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Well fitted pegs are ok and work well enough for some people, but pegs often give trouble, sticking, slipping and difficult to tune. An expensive compromise is to have mechanical pegs fitted (Pegheds). They work very well. But, even cheap tuners work well. That's why most guitars have them. I dont understand why you write such things. Its ok if you dont like wooden pegs, but how many guitars have you built with wooden pegs and do you shave the pegs well, and use a proper pegdope? What you write is just this cheapo internet myth thing. a few negative words that is easy to digest but which is absolutely nothing but repetition of the same old myth and therefor only negative in itself. It doesnt give any infrormation at all. Pegs are what they are and you have to respect them for what they are. If not, stay away from them, but it doesnt mean that pegs are bad. They are just bad for you. There are 2 important things about pegs: 1) That the builder takes them serious and does a good work on fitting them. I´ve seen many really really poorly fitted pegs on expensive guitars made by famous builders. 2) The owner of the guitar is willing to learn to tune with pegs and to maintain the pegs. The last is very simple, just add a bit of a good pegdope every odd time you change strings. It takes about 10 seconds a string. Pegs are not for everyone, but reality about pegs is very far from what krichards just wrote. Remember, violins were tuned with wooden pegs only for centuries. Back to the original question, I agree with the first answer by Escribano. But that said, I wouldnt think to much about it. Its few guitars that have problems in their headstock, and normally it can be repaired just as you see in krichards nice set of pictures
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