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Joined: Feb. 23 2005
From: La Jolla, Ca
Ebony pegs seats or????
Question:
I am seating the pegs for 2 new guitars, and have a birch wood dowel to set into the head as a friction-base for the ebony pegs, but.....
Would it be worth it to make an ebony dowel from pen-blanks, as it seems that ebony on ebony would be much smoother, without so much 'grabbing'....or is the grabbing what I want???
well i think ideally the grabbing happens as a function of a tapered ppeg and a tapered hole. i would think the ebony ebony combination would reduce wear. the reduced wear would help maintain the peg to hole size ratio longer and you'd have tuners that stay in tune and shape better..... PURELY SPECULATION lol.
Going with ebony seats, set inside like 2mm from the bottom, with the extra tiny dowel as a 'lock' drilled into the side of the seat AND the cypress, so that the peg-seat is locked and cannot twist free...
They are 4:1 ratio pegs. Look completely original/traditional, and are a dream to tune. Very reasonably priced. I highly recommend them...outstanding quality.
I have no affiliation, etc. but have used them in the past and he is very friendly and helpful.
The grabbing you adjust with some kind of paste (lava soap etc.) which also helps reduce wear. Another thing which helps tuning pegs is to make them thin. Less friction and les amount of strings tensioned in one turn. What is important is that the peg is well adjusted to the hole and vica versa.
In my opinion, THE most important thing is to know how to use a reamer and a pegshaver. Later on we can discuss putting plugs into the head.
I would not fit ebony. It has a tendency to schrink (spell?) You now getting smaller
I have made pegheads with maple inserts and I´ve made directly in the cedar. If the work with the reamer and the shaver is well done, there´s no difference. Maybe the maple head will last longer, The plugs cannot be seen when the guitar is finished
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