Doweling Peghead Holes

Hello People!
Thanks for joining me for more guitar restoration videos! This Old Gibson gets it's headstock restored.
Cheers,
Scotty D.,
Harpeth Guitar Restoration, LLC.
Nashville, Tennessee

[@ppgwhereeverett4412]

THIS IS SLICK !! This technique for getting the drill bit plumb is GREAT ! I have never seen that. 70 year old carpenter.

[@DanBerens2112]

I worked at a carwash too Scotty! Very interesting process in this video.

[@jrumiano]

Nice job! I especially like the method of centering the drill to cut the dowel holes dead center (very important when plugging tuners holes). I like and use fish glue quite a bit, it's a nice alternative to HHG without the rush to get things together before HHG starts jelling. The only down side with fish glue I've found, it's sensitivity to heat once it's cured. I am also with you about the transference of vibration from the tuners to the head stock. Great video!

[@antoine2333]

Helllllooooo Scootttyyyyy ! I'm violin luthier, like you, I have a nice feeling in restorations and repairs. So it's nice to learn from a different instrument and luthier, just to compair how we get on with it. At the end, what matters, is to improve any instrument ! Thank you for this video !

[@peterjames2580]

Fish glue is in my tool box! Thanks for the show.

[@harpethguitar]

You're welcome!

[@edwardpetersen4309]

Rest in Peace, Frank Ford. I learned a lot from him, especially back in the 70s and 80s when there were not too many tutorials on fretted instrument repair. There was a great magazine called FRETS which published repair methods and tips each month along with articles on playing and players, not to mention instrument construction itself. Frank was prominently featured. Not like today where there exist hundreds if not thousands of tutorial videos . . . Harpeth is one of the best IMHO.

[@harpethguitar]

Thank You 🙏

[@johngeddes7894]

We never called him “Frank” back in the day. It was always “Phrank” .

[@edwardpetersen4309]

@@johngeddes7894 I never met him in person. I did talk to him once on the phone when I called Gryphon.

[@neslesman6708]

Beautiful job.

[@bldallas]

Genius work with the drill press and vice!!! Very well done!

[@harpethguitar]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@bldallas]

Man, that is such an awesome guitar!

[@ppgwhereeverett4412]

Never thought about doweling a hole to make it smaller either ! I might have plugged it but Doweling is a much better way, obviously !

[@Spheramid]

Better yet, “sucks to your ass-mar!” Fish glue has been a favorite of mine since day one that I used it. And fish sauce, you need oyster sauce to go along with it, and sesame oil. RIP Frank.

[@vayabroder729]

I have a 10 lb Greco Les Paul and it’s not fun 😉. My 1950 ES-5 has those wafflebacks with the plastic buttons.

[@harpethguitar]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Satchmoeddie]

If you were concerned with the tone why use hardware store dowels? Go get a plug cutter and cut some maple plugs. At least the grain will be halfway going the right way. I quit trying to drumstick fill holes for studs, inserts and tuning machines with end grain dowels a long long time ago. I even used pure acrylic casting resin on a few wrap tail piece guitars' hole fills. The stuff I used was not clear like the stuff people cast spiders and snakes in. It's milky and it's really super hard and extremely tough. I put a vacuum on it so it's sucked into the exposed woodgrain inside the holes, no bubbles, no voids. You want set the inserts before it's fully cured, and then let them sit for a week or so. Maybe not set in stone, but pretty darned close to it. I've had too many things cock over at an angle using dowels. Then I get to fix it twice.

[@nellayema2455]

Great result! Just curious, I thought that there were conversion bushings to allow Kluson tuners to fit the Grover holes with modification? The end result wouldn't look original, but would require less work. Am I mistaken?

[@harpethguitar]

Yes but the owner wanted to use the original bushings

[@unfair_potato]

Ha ha - universal-ass car warsh... Hey, I was thinking about the days when you were live performing around TC - what guitar was your main back in the late 80s, the black one? Charvel?

[@harpethguitar]

KRAMER! Actually the Car wash was “Rochester Auto Wash” but I definitely worked at Universal. Still have my T-shirt! 😅

[@andyt5559]

love the luthiery! but why the accents?

[@mischadickerhof5375]

What is this everlasting buzz about not beeing able to bend strings with these frets? I play a 55 custom with original frets for years and I bend all the time and I'm not into jazz at all...

[@steveharnack3506]

Volute on A ‘68?

[@20strato]

Right. Also the “i” on the logo should be dotted.

[@harpethguitar]

The serial number search came up as 1971. I think that makes more sense.

[@mikedavis3841]

Heavy Les Paul just play it sitting down.