WARNING:
If you have strong opinions about using only the proper equipment, you might want to go on to the next thread.
Even Earl might find it a little dark in here... :gar-La;
I started a thread in the carvng forum about getting my tuning pegs shaped close to final form:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/showthread.php?p=141589#post141589
One suggestion was to consider turning them and I even had a nice old lathe offered to me. I will probably take Mike up on that offer, but it will be a while before I can get up his way. In the meantime, I decided to improvise...
That's a pear wood peg blank (see the other thread for a picture of a similar instrument; the pegs are huge). I carved a little divot in the center of the blank so it stays on my fancy dead center (the ground pin of a 3 prong was the handiest round pin I could find already mounted in something I could clamp). My cutting tool is a Microplane rotary rasp. that worked out really well. It's hard to tell in the photo, but the surface is textured with tiny facets. It looks carved. With both drills on, I use the Microplane on the surface that is running away from me and didn't need a tool rest. This is a short term solution, but it is working pretty well. I got all 3 shaped close enough that I can carve and/or use a peg shaper to get them the rest of the way.
If you have strong opinions about using only the proper equipment, you might want to go on to the next thread.
Even Earl might find it a little dark in here... :gar-La;
I started a thread in the carvng forum about getting my tuning pegs shaped close to final form:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/showthread.php?p=141589#post141589
One suggestion was to consider turning them and I even had a nice old lathe offered to me. I will probably take Mike up on that offer, but it will be a while before I can get up his way. In the meantime, I decided to improvise...
That's a pear wood peg blank (see the other thread for a picture of a similar instrument; the pegs are huge). I carved a little divot in the center of the blank so it stays on my fancy dead center (the ground pin of a 3 prong was the handiest round pin I could find already mounted in something I could clamp). My cutting tool is a Microplane rotary rasp. that worked out really well. It's hard to tell in the photo, but the surface is textured with tiny facets. It looks carved. With both drills on, I use the Microplane on the surface that is running away from me and didn't need a tool rest. This is a short term solution, but it is working pretty well. I got all 3 shaped close enough that I can carve and/or use a peg shaper to get them the rest of the way.
