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Repair Help
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:32 pm
by jailbaitmonger
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?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:39 pm
by Aug
how is the tuning peg attached to the headstock? screws or by nut?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:47 pm
by jailbaitmonger
It's the one that's in the neck. It looks like a hole was drilled and the tuning peg was shoved in.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:55 pm
by Bacchus
Would it be tapered, per chance. You make it sound like a violin tuning peg, which has to be pushed into it's housing.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:33 pm
by More Cowbell
Take it to a luthier and get an estimate.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:34 pm
by Aug
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:55 pm
by Mo Law-ka
im guessing thats the one he's talking about.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:39 pm
by jailbaitmonger
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:39 pm
by jailbaitmonger
More Cowbell wrote:Take it to a luthier and get an estimate.
That's no fun.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:42 pm
by jailbaitmonger
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.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:07 pm
by robert(original)
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.
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 9:31 pm
by jailbaitmonger
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.
