The end pin

I also got the reamer for the end pin from Pekka. He told me that it would be good if the end pin pointed a little towards the back and to the left. It would make the end pin support the cello better once in the playing position. I got everybody to help with drilling the larger pilot hole for the end pin. My wife checked the direction from the side, the children help the cello, and I drilled the hole. That went really well.

Pekka had told me that wetting the wood some what would make it easier to ream the hole. So that is what I did. I reamed slowly so that I managed to get the end pin in. We tested it with Elias so that it was good and I only needed to make the end pin go a few more centimetres further in. And then I did a mistake. I don't know why, but I thought the direction was too much to the side and thought I could still correct it. There was at least 2 cm more for the pin and I thought that it enough to start fixing the direction. Well it wasn't. The end pin is now too loose. I don't quite know what to do now. One option would be to glue the end pin in place. Another to try to fill the hole and start again. And yet another to get a bigger end pin and try to fit it.

Disappointing. So far I have managed to avoid any bigger mistakes. And now this. I was probably too eager to get the first notes out of the cello. On this new thing I should have just done things really slowly and carefully. Especially with the experience with the first peg. Oh well. Need to think of something now. Maybe glueing the end pin in place would not be too bad. I will call Pekka tomorrow and see what he thinks.