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estebanana -> RE: Plugging tuner holes (Nov. 29 2017 8:57:32)
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It looks like fun to make dowels.
The grain orientation is the thing. Get a plug cutter a little over 10 mm, like 12mm or so. Use the drill press to cut plugs from the same stock as the head of the guitar. Take the plug form the side of the board, the same side you drill into to make the hole for the tuners roller.
get a 30:1 reamer or make one with rough sandpaper wrapped and glued over a dowel that you taper with a plane and file carefully. You can pick taper. I have a small lathe for making a tapered sanding dowel.
Then hold the plug in a vice and file it to the same taper, it's not hard. Or chuck the plug up in a drill or drill press on low speed and use a file. You should taper it slightly. Make a few of them.
Take the sandpaper reamer, and taper the roller carefully so it's slightly larger on the outside. The tuner plate will cover it. Now fit your tapered plug into the roller hole, it should stick out on the inside. You'll cut it off later with a sharp chisel. The twirl the plug until the grain aligns with the existing grain in the headstock. Then pull out see the places it rubs and pare them off with a scalpel ot some really hyper sharp knife and fit it again with the same grain orientation.
Once you're happy the grain is aligned and the fit is tight, put hot hide glue on it and push it in quick. It probably doe snot need a clamp. Leave it over night and trim it the next day with the hyper sharp paring chisel.
Theres one more way too that is faster. I can tell that one too. But the way I explained is a route an invisible repair.
( EDIT) I did not see your picture. I thought you had already cut the front of the headstock open with string slots.
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