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Bushing the Horror!

April 4, 2006 at 8:25 PM

Dropped my new violin off to get Knilling Pegs installed at Violins etc... Called Kyle the Luthier/Repair person to see if it was done. He informed it would not be done today, he had to bush the peg holes. The holes where bigger than the Knilling Pegs.

I told him they had bigger peg sizes, he told me he didn't have those in stock so decided to bush them.

Is this typical? Is bushing a brand new violin a sound thing to do? Do people do that sort of surgery on an advanced violin with out asking first?

It seems to me like a mechanic re-building a carbeurator, when you took your car in for a tune up with out asking?

I think I'll post this for discussion too.
Is it usually expensive? I was a little horrified on the call and didn't think to ask about it. I wanted to calm down first.

Jason

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on April 4, 2006 at 8:31 PM

Yeah, it's typical. Typically messed up. Half the people who repair stringed instruments are nut cases. Just be glad he didn't paint it a different color for you.

From Jenna Potts
Posted on April 4, 2006 at 10:05 PM

Forgive my ignorance....what does it mean to "bush" a peg hole?

From Jason Thomas
Posted on April 5, 2006 at 1:53 AM

My limited understanding of it is that they cut bigger hole in it then put in a pieces of wood to make a smaller hole.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on April 5, 2006 at 8:01 AM

Excuse my ignorance, too. What are Knilling pegs?

From Jason Thomas
Posted on April 6, 2006 at 4:07 AM

Perfection Pegs are pegs that have internal gears in them and can be tuned precisely with no fine tuners. They look like regular ebony pegs.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on April 6, 2006 at 6:41 AM

Jason, are Perfection pegs and knilling pegs the same? I don't understand about the gears. How do they make wooden gears, and doesn't the inside of the peg hole have to be modified to accept them?

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on April 6, 2006 at 6:54 AM

OK, I just read about the knilling pegs on this very site,at http://www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=5677. They sound great! Why didn't I discover them earlier? My students would love them, too. It's so hard to learn to tune conventional pegs and it sounds so awful when you play out of tune.

From Jason Thomas
Posted on April 7, 2006 at 1:43 AM

They are truly awesome! I have them on 4 of my violins.

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