Repair Help

jailbaitmonger · Post by **jailbaitmonger** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:32 pm

A friend of mine has a banjo and the tuning peg that is set in the neck is loose. The poor thing can even be tuned. How is something like this best handled?

Does anyone have experience with something like this?

Aug · Post by **Aug** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:39 pm

how is the tuning peg attached to the headstock? screws or by nut?

jailbaitmonger · Post by **jailbaitmonger** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:47 pm

It's the one that's in the neck. It looks like a hole was drilled and the tuning peg was shoved in.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:55 pm

Would it be tapered, per chance. You make it sound like a violin tuning peg, which has to be pushed into it's housing.

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:33 pm

Take it to a luthier and get an estimate.

Aug · Post by **Aug** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:34 pm

pick the tuner that most closely resembles the tuner you are talking about.

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:55 pm

im guessing thats the one he's talking about.

jailbaitmonger · Post by **jailbaitmonger** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:39 pm

Aug wrote:pick the tuner that most closely resembles the tuner you are talking about.

jailbaitmonger · Post by **jailbaitmonger** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:39 pm

More Cowbell wrote:Take it to a luthier and get an estimate.

That's no fun.

jailbaitmonger · Post by **jailbaitmonger** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:42 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:Would it be tapered, per chance. You make it sound like a violin tuning peg, which has to be pushed into it's housing.

The area does have a slight taper to it.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sat May 26, 2007 7:07 pm

most likely the taper is rubbed clean, take the tuner out, use wood glue and scraps of wood, fill it in a bit and shove it back in really hard.

jailbaitmonger · Post by **jailbaitmonger** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:31 pm

robert(original) wrote:most likely the taper is rubbed clean, take the tuner out, use wood glue and scraps of wood, fill it in a bit and shove it back in really hard.

Thanks! I figured doing something like would work, but I wanted to ask first so I didn't fuck anything up.