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BY DAVID MATH IAS

APRIL 2008

Dozens of Pegs

There are many methods for making mortises to house pegs. My currently preferred technique is to use a hollow chisel mortiser. It's important that the bit is well-tuned to avoid leaving telltale half moons. A little work with a file on the bit can correct this if it's a problem. Note that the mortises will go through to the grooves - backup the cuts to avoid splintering.

Making 72 of anything is likely to be tedious -- ebony pegs are no exception. Because I don't have a disk sander my method is more labor intensive than some though the results are quite good. Machine ebony stock into square bars, oversized by about V64", for each of the required sizes. Part of the appeal of ebony pegs is the glow of highly polished end grain. I achieve this

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