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Old 08-29-2019, 11:01 AM
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In looking for a nice strap button, it seems that all I see are the typical Chrome and gold colored metal ones. What would be wrong with converting an endpin into a strap button? you could take off the tapered end, drill a small hole for the screw, countersink it, and there ya go - a strap button to match your endpin.
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Old 08-29-2019, 11:34 AM
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I have done it many, many times. A modelmaker's lathe is the trick. On ebony pins, I think a counterbore with a pan head style screw is preferred. I have seen wooden strap buttons split from the wedging of a countersunk screw.
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Old 08-29-2019, 01:35 PM
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I did that with an ebony peg for my GS Mini. Cut it to suit, drilled it out, cut a suitable screw to length (took the head off), filed the flats on the screw to be glued into the button so it can't spin, epoxyed it in., made a leather washer. It matches the Taylor bridge pins I replaced the plastic ones with.







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Old 08-29-2019, 02:12 PM
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You could just get one of the regular screw in ebony end pins and safe your self some trouble too.
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Old 08-30-2019, 04:15 AM
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What about these...

https://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and...ap_Button.html
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Old 08-30-2019, 12:51 PM
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I have a nice bone endpin doing nothing so i now have something to do tonight.thanks for the tip.
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Old 08-30-2019, 01:36 PM
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That's a treat-and-a-half! What a nice bit of detail. Thanks very much.
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Yeah that's what I was talking about. I do like how magirus did it but even with these you could inlay a dot.
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Old 08-30-2019, 08:39 PM
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I would warn that wood buttons can be prone to splitting - don’t ask how I know this (at least twice!). For safety’s sake, I use nothing but the standard metal buttons nowadays - never had a metal button fail on me...

https://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and...p_Buttons.html

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