It is summertime. The humidity is high. High humidity causes wood to swell causing pegs to stick. Simply moving the instrument to a dryer environment for a few weeks may help. Craig Craig R. Pierpont Another Era Lutherie www.anotherera.com --- On Wed, 8/6/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LUTE] Stuck pegs To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>, "David Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 10:34 AM Dear All: A well-known luthier once told me an effective way to remove a stuck peg without damaging it: Take a short length of wooden dowel (1 inch or 2 cm) that is slightly smaller in diameter than the small end of the stuck peg. Then take a small mallet or hammer and gently tap-tap-tap until it pops loose. Do not use pliers or vise-grips! Cheers, Jim To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --