Dear Sterling,
I found it best to make my own to fit my own reamers. There are various ways to do this - mine is: Drill and ream a tapered hole in a piece of suitable wood (I used some mahogany); plane down to get a parallel sided slit along the length of the taper, cut and grind an edge on a piece of mild steel (like a plane blade - but straight - to act as a pencil sharpener like blade); cut two slots in the blade for screws (or bolts) to adjust the cut and fasten blade to wood. By trial and error you'll find the best projection into the slot to produce a thin shaving. You can, if you wish, finish off by removing the blade and clamping some good quality abrasive paper (cloth backed is best) onto a rigid backing to the slot side and giving the pegs a few turns in this. In practice I also often use the same blade on a number of slotted wooden tapers to produce pegs of different diameters. MH --- On Mon, 4/3/13, sterling price <[email protected]> wrote: From: sterling price <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Peg Sharpener Source To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 4 March, 2013, 6:51 Hi all- Just wondering about a good source to get a peg sharpener in the US. The sharpener that Stewart-Macdonald has doesnt seem right for lute pegs... --Sterling -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
