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Geemac Member
Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 93 Location: Spruce Grove
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Peg wood |
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Other than Ebony or Boxwood, are there any other recommendations for the wood to use to make violin pegs? _________________ GeeMac |
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Andres Sender Super Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 275 Location: N. CA
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Fine grained rosewood-family woods, mountain mahogany, pernambuco... |
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Geemac Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Aha! Rosewood - great idea and it'll look fantastic. Thanks _________________ GeeMac |
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Leif Luscombe Site Admin
Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126 Location: Mount Elgin, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Rosewood pegs usually work very well because the oils and resins found in the wood act as natural lubricants. _________________ Leif Luscombe
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MANFIO Super Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Sao Paulo
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Ebony, being black, will match with all violin colours. The same may not be true to other woods.
As a maker, my idea is that the eyes of the player must be fixed in the instrument, not in the fittings, the instrument must be the star. _________________ www.manfio.com
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Geemac Member
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Ahhhhh, but your violins are beautiful. I am making my sixth and ,if it plays at all, I do not expect it to be played outside my home. So I shall retain the great luxury of experimentation and explore possibilties. Should I stumble upon something of interest, I shall post it here. _________________ GeeMac |
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MANFIO Super Member
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Geemac Member
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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And thank you. I have a small lathe, so I'll try making my own for a while. If I accidentally make a good violin, I'll invest in some quality pegs. _________________ GeeMac |
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MANFIO Super Member
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Good! But making pegs, tailpieces, endpins and chinrests may be a science in itself, and the Romans liked to say "ars lunga, vita brevis"...
Perhaps you will have already suffient sutff related to violin making itself to think about the pegs. Dov Schimidt sells good ebony pegs for reasonable prices. Good luck! _________________ www.manfio.com
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