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Howdy everyone, I am looking for a used 3 or 5 deg bridge pin reamer. Hoping that someone has one laying around they are not using anymore

Thanks in advance
Bill

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If I recall correctly, Grizzly Tools sells a 3 degree tapered reamer for about 10 bucks.

The one Grizzly sells, or at least the one they sold a few years ago is 3 degrees, but isn't big enough or is barely big enough for most bridge pins.

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Thanks for the advice !

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5 degree reamers can be found at the hardware stores, I have a Craftsman reamer that is perfect for 5 degree pins, I have one of the 3 degree like the Grizzly one and it will work but is worth about what it costs or less, get a Stewmac or Lmi reamer for 3 deg.

Fred

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Thanks for all of the advice everyone. Still hoping to find a used one.

Have a great evening
Bill

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Ain't that the dang truth !!!

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C F Martin sells a 5 degree reamer for around $20 if you don't feel like looking at the hardware store.

Chuck

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Thanks for the info chuckB, I,ll take a look.

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Fred, I know you said that with the best of intentions, but you're talking about USA/Canada. The rest of the world's quite a big place. I bet I could visit every hardware store in France and not find a tapered reamer.

In the same vein, people sometimes tell us how they went to Home Depot and looked through the maple to find some curly pieces, etc. In France you could look through the warped knotty pine or the balsa-like African 'hardwood'.

Sorry about the rant, but I sometimes feel as if I live on another planet.

Living in Scotland, I know how you feel exactly, AND, strangely enough, we have exactly the same wood types in the stores.
Sometimes I have to almost bite my typing finger to stop myself commenting on some posts!
And in a way we do live in a different "world", the market in the US is so large and varied.
Perhaps I should just say our countries of residence provide more of a challenge?

Colin

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

A timely topic. Just two hours ago I was reaming the pin holes on my latest, thinking what a pleasure it is to be using a Stew Mac (3degree) reamer instead of the piece of garbage that I bought from Griz a few years back. That one was so horrible that, until I committed the cash to Stew Mac, I actually used the tang of a file as a reamer. Money well spent for the Stew Mac.

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Does anyone use the three degree from LMII?

_MIke

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Visions of splitting the bridge on a finished guitar. (I'm very ham fisted)
I second the money well spent. I lashed out on both a 3 and a 5 deg from Stewmac before starting to build and they are a pleasure to use.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

This low-$ one has worked for me... small/large diameters are 0.118" and 0.496", over 3.6" length --> 6.0 deg included angle:
http://www.harborfreight.com/t-handle-reamer-66936.html

Oddly, StewMac's "5-degree" reamer has dimensions that correspond to 6.1 deg.
http://www.stewmac.com/shopby/item/3227

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