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Trade Secrets: Making a wooden peg shaper

2024-11-01T09:44:00

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A method for creating a model with an interchangeable blade

By Renate Fink

Luthier based in Osterwieck, Germany

As a maker of violas da gamba and other early stringed instruments, I soon realised that there are no commercially available peg shapers that have the right dimensions for shaping the much longer pegs for violas da gamba and violones. Viols have six or more strings, so they need wider fingerboards and a broader pegbox to house all the pegs…

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