---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The method my dad used and taught is to use the teeth on the inside of a=20 pair of slip-joint pliers to put multiple grooves in the shank. Careful=20 filing of the outer mating surfaces of the pliers will allow you to close=20 them a little more, and get a consistent set of grooves. Crushing the shank= =20 is a no-no, but sometimes comes in handy if the shank has been overly=20 reduced during prep. 2=A2 worth, U.S., Guy At 12:47 PM 7/16/2005 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 7/16/2005 10:26:45 AM Central Standard Time,=20 >jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes: >I have seen, at a convention class, or the list, or the Guild magazine, a >gizmo for scoring the shank, to allow, trapped air to escape. >I think it was a piece of wood, with a hole drilled in it, the size of the >shank, then it had a screw in it, where the point was into the hole. >You just inserted the shank, and it was scored to the depth the point was >out. >John M. Ross >I inherited from my dad a shank knurler. It is a disk with groves in it,=20 >that is attached to a crank. It has a curved piece of metal parallel to=20 >the disk, that can be adjusted with a set screw, to allow the distance=20 >between the disk and the curved metal piece to vary. (for different shank= =20 >sizes, or more or less knurling). You can attach it to a bench with=20 >screws, or a clamp. He probably got it when he worked for Stark. > >I use it when I replace a whole set of shanks. When I do just one, I use a= =20 >pair of pliers, to gently knurl the shank. > >Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/0e/0f/80/a8/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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