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Another edition of my mutant series. It took me a while to determine how the string holes were drilled in the glass pegs. These are used in burette cylinders to pour out precise quantities of fluids.
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Kind of cool actually
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So, of course I wanted to know what a Burnet cylinder was and this is what google had to say about that...
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Ghost pegs
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@bocaholly and others. Modified spelling in my original post and provided a photo for comparison.
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Does it add weight to the peg? It's certainly harder than ebony. It would look even better with a more frosted look, in my opinion.
Someone recently showed me a picture of their late grandmother's fiddle. It had dice-headed pegheads. They were squared, had the dots carved in and were even painted white.
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@Amateur . The glass heads are bead blasted. The sloped area were grounded in an abrasive slurry and applied with grease to provide a water tight seal with a mating glass surface. Modern glassware uses a plastic or Teflon peg.
They would be much heavier than wood.
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Very interesting indeed Irv. I suppose you need to make sure that their are no sharp edges in those holes. LOL
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