Anders Eliasson -> RE: PEGHEDS anybody??? (Mar. 27 2008 6:53:44)
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First. how should a well fitted peg work: Pegs and hole are conical, meaning the more you push it in, the more difficult it´ll turn. A lot of players think they have to push the pig into the head very hard in order to not slip. Thats not true and its one of the reasons players cant make the work. A well maintained and lubricated peg should turn without any need or very little need to be pushed in. When you start the days playing and especially after not having played the guitar for a while, the pegs might feel stiff, and so you gently loosen it by detuning the string a bit while you drag the peg slightly outside. Then you pitch the string while you gently push the peg inside. Just enough to not make it slip. If the peg is well fitted and also well lubricated it can now be turned without any problems. Its not a big deal. You get used to it. Thin pegs tune the best because you move les string in one turn. I will not say that pegs tune as well as good machine tuners, but they are as good as a standard tuner with imperfections in the gear. Lubrication. You can buy pegdope, you can mix a creamy soap with chalk and on French polished guitars you can use a mix of ballbearing grease and fine pumice. Use very little. Its nice to maintain a peghead. Its like adjusting an old motorbike and take it for a ride in the early summer morning quote:
I mean, can't really make the hole smaller, or make the peg bigger./....... No, but you can shave and fit a new peg. No big deal.
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