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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 13, 2019 at 8:06pm

I used the same headstock design on one of my CBG's. I hollowed the center out and mounted the tuners on the sides with pegs facing the back. Easy to tune.

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on October 14, 2019 at 5:13am

I really like the up-or-down peg position, but I gon't have the skills yet to rout a hollow headstock...

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on October 14, 2019 at 5:28am

I’ve done that with a forstner bit & files, not hard at all, just a little patience?

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on October 14, 2019 at 12:49pm

"I’ve done that with a forstner bit & files, not hard at all, just a little patience?

What is this "patience" of which you speak? I know not the word...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 17, 2019 at 7:29am

I used a large Forstner bit for the corners/points and cut the rest out with a jig saw. Clean up with files.

The hardest part was drilling the peg holes on the side because it was end grain of the wood made it hard to keep the holes from walking. I used Brad Bits for that and it worked out well enough. The pitch of the headstock angle helped to secure the tuner with that offset screw.

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on October 14, 2019 at 8:22am

Lookin' good James. This should be a cool build.

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on October 14, 2019 at 12:49pm

Watch for my next thread...

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