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most likely the taper is rubbed clean, take the tuner out, use wood glue and scraps of wood, fill it in a bit and shove it back in really hard.

Thanks! I figured doing something like would work, bu ...

Would it be tapered, per chance. You make it sound like a violin tuning peg, which has to be pushed into it's housing.

The area does have a slight taper to it.

Take it to a luthier and get an estimate.

That's no fun.

http://www.stewmac.com/catalog/images_1sm/0033_1sm.jpg

http://www.arthursclipart.com/music/musicbw/BANJO.gif

It's the one that's in the neck. It looks like a hole was drilled and the tuning peg was shoved in.

A friend of mine has a banjo and the tuning peg that is set in the neck is loose. The poor thing can even be tuned. How is something like this best handled?

Does anyone have experience with somethi ...