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Geemac · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Peg wood

Other than Ebony or Boxwood, are there any other recommendations for the wood to use to make violin pegs?
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Andres Sender · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject:

Fine grained rosewood-family woods, mountain mahogany, pernambuco...

Geemac · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject:

Aha! Rosewood - great idea and it'll look fantastic. Thanks
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Leif Luscombe · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject:

Rosewood pegs usually work very well because the oils and resins found in the wood act as natural lubricants.
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MANFIO · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:36 am Post subject:

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.
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Geemac · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject:

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.
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MANFIO · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:55 am Post subject:

Thanks!

Dov Schimidt has a wide variety of pegs, good prices and good service, here:

http://www.dov-music.com/catalog.asp
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Geemac · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

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.
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MANFIO · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject:

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!
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