[CAUT] damper guider rails

[Bob Hohf]

Check out the November 1999 Journal, "A Guide to Bridge Recapping."

Bob Hohf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Brekne
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:19 PM
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: [CAUT] damper guider rails
> 
> There is not any guarantee that the old rail will line up well enough
> with the strings after a soundboard / bridge replacement. Sounds to me
> like a fine opportunity to make yourself a brand new rail.  This is
> actually quite easy and its a good thing to be able to know how to do.
> We did pretty much exactly this at the Oberlin Steinway seminar this
> summer as they had a few older Steinways with a double bushing cloth
> solution that they wanted to convert to single cloth bushings.
> 
> Marking the bushing holes is quite easy... drilling should be done with
> fence and drill press... you want to be dead accurate.  Since doing that
> this summer I've looked at many a guide rail.  Looks to me like lots of
> guys at factories get pretty damned good at free hand drilling.... and
> by that I mean they get good enough to get away with it... but not good
> enough to not leave significant room for improvement.
> 
> Cheers
> RicB
> 
> 
>     List,
> 
>     I just got our Steinway A back from getting a new board, bridges, etc
>     replaced.  The damper guide rail was not reattached and no new holes
>     were
>     drilled in the board for the screws.
> 
>      >From where do I measure to align the rail back properly so the
>     dampers
>     will be in the right place?
> 
>     Thanks in advance!
> 
>     Paul