Just noticed that I phrased my response wrong. The holes in the
instrument were slightly too big for one size of pegs, so I had to go
up to the next biggest size and then ream the holes out for that size.
-Arle
On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Cor Westbroek wrote:
Arle is right,
On the antique gurdy I used smaller pegs, the 8 mm violin grip pegs.
They were a little shorter, but that wasn't a problem.
The first gurdy I installed the pegs on, had pegholes that were not
wide enough. I didn't ream them out enough, so the pegs were a
little too high in the pegbox. The string didn't wind, so I had to
drill a hole in the side of the pegbox a little higher than the
original hole to solve that problem.
Cor
----- Original Message -----
From: Arle Lommel
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [HG] planetary pegs
They're as long as any violin or viola pegs. They're designed to
essentially drop in as a replacement for a standard peg without any
modification of the instrument. In my case, when I installed them I
had holes just slightly too big and so had to ream the holes out to
a larger size than what the instrument was designed for, but the
length was not an issue at all. Having installed them, the only
thing I would recommend now is that you drill out the string hole to
a larger diameter before you install them. The holes aren't quite
big enough for heavy drones unless you drill them out.
-Arle
