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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on December 20, 2018 at 7:41pm

Simple scarf joint video 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5024VR40fg&index=10&list=PLQ...

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on December 20, 2018 at 11:25pm

Hi Kimberly, I'm not sure what you are referring to regarding "notching" the peghead. My next two or three steps after gluing up the splice is to thin the peghead to suit the tuner post height, putting a veneer on the front, and drilling the holes for the tuners.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on December 21, 2018 at 11:37am

I thought a couple of pics of me thicknessing a peghead may give you an idea. One is thicknessed from the back, the other is not spliced and thicknessed from the front.

There are three or four ways I've used a drum sander or belt sander to do this.

Two are shown here. Another is to mount the drum into a hand drill and mount that on a table, the other it to use the end of a 3" - 4" hand held belt sander suitably modified.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on December 21, 2018 at 6:49am

If you’re talking about thinning the headstock to accommodate the tuners? Yes, you’ll want to do that. Good luck & happy building :D

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