YIKES! Using a reamer in an electric drill
Issue 243 May 21, 2015
This little parlor guitar was found in a trash can and Dan Erlewine is doing a quick fix on the bridge. The pin holes were entirely chewed up. Dan’s drilling them out with a peg hole reamer then plugging them with peg-shaped plugs of hardwood.
About the guitar in this video: There’s not much known about this little guitar. Dan calls it a “catalog” guitar because instruments like this were so common on catalog pages from the 1920s and 1930s.
- Strange black stain burned into the guitar top
- Turning a hand reamer into an oversize drill bit!
- Creating tapered plugs from a hardwood dowel
- Patching the bridge pin holes in order to re-drill them
