Beginner Cigar Box Guitar

Step 8 Tuning Pegs & Tragic Errors

1. Create the headstock (ie: shape at the end of your neck that will hold the tuning pegs.) I decided to just leave the board as is, but your headstock could be any shape big enough to house the pegs. An example. And another. And one more.
2. mark 3 places for the tuning pegs about 1 1/2 inches apart on the headstock
3. Drill holes for the tuning pegs to pass through
4. The pegs I bought came with little metal "sleeves" that fit down in the holes on the top side of the guitar.
5. I made a mistake: The sleeves were wider than the tuning pegs, so I kept drilling larger and larger holes until the sleeves fit. This was probably a mistake. Maybe you are supposed to hammer in the sleeves like grommets?
6. I made an even bigger mistake: I drilled my tuning pegs in a straight line. You should angle them a little. Otherwise, all 3 strings will bunch up at the middle of the nut, like mine did.
7. Oh well, carry on.
8. Pass the tuning pegs through the drill holes, then screw them into the underside of the neck.