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Home made guitar tuning pegs? any ideas?

i decided to make a cigar box guitar. I need something i can use for tuners (besides real guitar tuners). I have heard of possibly using
i-bolts or screws, and if so could you tell me how this works? thanks to any useful answers

If you haven’t already seen this site:

http://www.cigarboxguitars.com/

there is a bunch of info there. The guy did use some cheap “real” tuners to make his Guitar.

I can’t think of anything really useful that would substitute, really. I’d go to Goodwill or something and find a crappy old guitar and just cannibalize it for the tuners. Or go to Toys R Us or something and get a little kiddie guitar and steal the tuners of of that.

I don’t think Screws would work all that great. You would have to use Machine screws if you did. And would have to be able to drill a hole through it. (kinda hard to do.) You could use two lock nuts, one on each side of the “headstock”, I suppose.

If you can find eye bolts with machine bolt threading you could do use them too. you’d have to tune it and then lock the two nuts down so the bolt doesn’t rotate out with the string tension.
That’s the only way I see that working.

Real tuners would be much easier. there is also a Yahoo group dedicated to Cigar box guitars. you might check that out to get advice from there.

Good Luck

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