Plugging tuner holes in headstock for redrilling

[neepheid]

Anyone know where I can obtain some maple dowel suitable for filling in tuner holes (9/16" (approx 14mm) diameter)? Turning a 6 string neck into a 5, at least one has to be filled but I might do all 5 and redrill them all for optimum placing.

[clauster]

Any decent timber merchant should be able to help.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[url="http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk/"]Touchstone Tonewoods[/url]

[neepheid]

They couldn't help me, but I managed to find some ramin (Gonystylus bancanus) dowelling at an online modelling supplies shop, which is light and plain wood, with hardness comparable to maple.

[tauzero]

[quote name='neepheid' post='182910' date='Apr 22 2008, 04:10 PM']Anyone know where I can obtain some maple dowel suitable for filling in tuner holes (9/16" (approx 14mm) diameter)? Turning a 6 string neck into a 5, at least one has to be filled but I might do all 5 and redrill them all for optimum placing.[/quote]
Just go headless...

[neepheid]

[quote name='tauzero' post='185100' date='Apr 25 2008, 09:46 AM']Just go headless... [/quote]

Heh, nah it's cool. I just remembered that it doesn't matter what wood the dowels are as long as it's hard - I'm covering the face of the headstock with zebrano veneer, and i might as well put some maple veneer on the back, so it will look as if nothing happened - or that's the idea at any rate!