Plugging tuner screw holes

Robbie O'Brien demonstrates how he plugs tuner screw holes when replacing tuners on a guitar.
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[@Satchmoeddie]

You can also take a small fine 2-4mm viener carving tool and cut some shallow V grooves across the top of the holes parallel to the grain and lay in the same species of wood. This is especially good for going over very large holes that have been filled in, such as stop tail piece stud holes on solid body guitars, and screw holes or even giant holes from other old bridges and hardware. For the type of patch shown here I prefer to mark my piece of wood before I break it off, but I will do a dry fit so that if the grain is off by 15 or 20 degrees such as in the video, I can re-sharpen it again, and know how much to rotate the piece and in which direction before I glue it in and I trim it off for the final look. If the grain is way off I can use another piece or keep on sharpening until I get a good match. Next comes the really fun part, which is feathering in some form of a darkened finish to cover that old footprint up. (IT SHOULD USUALLY NATURALLY DARKEN ON ITS OWN, OVER TIME.)

[@Mromarcito23]

Wow Super useful video, thank you!

[@kmichaelp4508]

I like it. I need to do this on a guitar 🤐

[@imlost-lordshowmetheway8194]

I bought a Gibson Les Paul Standard that is black. It has had the Kluson tuners replaces with locking Grovers. I'm sure there were 6 top holes showing outside of the footprint of the new Grovers. I have a feeling the person who did this change filled, then repainted the back of the headstock because you can now barely read the serial number and Made in USA imprints. Seems the paint is slightly starting to bubble. It kinda bums me out because it takes away some value of the guitar.