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Anyone using a home made peg shaver for guitar pegs etc? Or....what works with a violin peg reamer?

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Use them frequently. They work and work well, they are a simple tool so that shouldn't come as a surprise. Just use the reamer that you have to form the tapered hole in your shaper and you will have a pretty good match. Depending on how much wood you need to remove (on the peg) you may need to make a few shapers.

I'd be grateful to see a picture of a home made one. My kid broke one a while back. I won't go into my crude approach to shaping a new one, but it worked fine.

Thanks,
Danny

Not a lot to see really. The important bit is to place the edge of the cutting blade above the centre line of the reamer - around about the 2 'o' clock position. The length of the cutter (the cutting edge) should also follow the taper of the reamer.
Even though I have the brass shapers I use the wooden homemade type. In use the blade is clamped with a through bolt. large washer and wing nut.

Looks simple enough to make, but, we shall see ... thanks!!

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Here is what a Parlor Guitar is for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa8PkjO6_I

hey thanks for showing
i would love to see a peg shaving tutorial
from the bone to the bridge
how do you guys roughly shape your pegs ?
off the bone or chucked into a drill press
i was often thinking of making one but wanted to
see one first and get a tip or two
what about an adjustable blade by thumbscrew
for getting the final shape (would it save time)
or do you just feed the bone into the tool with a drill ?
thanks
tomas

Its just like a big fancy pencil sharpener!

You should turn your pegs on a lathe first, but I am using storebought.

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Here is what a Parlor Guitar is for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa8PkjO6_I

It might be helpful to some who may not know,that if you sharpen your cutters to a steep angle,so that they scrape,rather than trying to cut into the wood,the peg shaper will work infinitely better. It will do very smooth work.

Anyone have any thoughts about DIY reamers? I need to ream some peg holes, only 6 string pegs and 6 tuning pegs, not nearly enough to justify the cost of "proper" reamers.

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Ebay guy has some old 'guitar reamers', he seems to have a ton of them last time I looked, 10 bucks or so.

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Here is what a Parlor Guitar is for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa8PkjO6_I

+ $20 shipping!

I'll probably see if I can find someone to do me a favour.

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