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End Pins
(Please note: I only make a few of these each year.)
This particular end pin has a red palm body, African hard-wood shaft, and an English walnut thumbscrew.
I can make an end pin from just about any type of hardwood you choose. I use only quarter sawn, well aged wood for strength and beauty.
Check out the thumbscrew...I find the standard flat metal thumbscrew painful. This round, knurled, wood, thumbscrew is very comfortable and gives plenty of purchase on the bearing surface of the end pin’s hard wood shaft, which is 5/8" diameter and comes with two tips. One of the tips is the Wolf Endpin Ball. The other is a brass tip that I manufacture. The Wolf Endpin Ball fits over the brass tip and is secured with the supplied thumb screw. The brass tip’s shaft is press fit and glued 20mm up into the hardwood end pin shaft.
What is the big deal about a wood shaft opposed to metal, brass, or aluminum? It resonates in a way that is more compatible with a wood instrument
The brass tip is handy on hardwood floors, collapsible stages, and on tightly woven carpet, especially if you are sitting.
The endpin ball goes everywhere else, and is long–lasting! For linoleum and nice hardwood floors, if I am sitting, I use some ground–up rosin on the base of the ball, helping it stick.
If you are interested in only the 5/8 hardwood shaft, brass tip, and Wolf Endpin Ball installed in your existing end pin, or if you would like just the hardwood shaft with a black, durable crutch tip, that can usually be arranged.