[CAUT] VS Profelt

[David Ilvedson]

That sounds like years of needling...same thing happened to me when I tried steaming...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage at comcast.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 11/17/2008 12:32:22 PM
Subject: [CAUT]  VS Profelt


>I pulled the action on the Weber which had rock hard hammers on which
>I saturated the shoulders.  It expanded the hammer and tore the surface
>on the area either side of the crown either side of the bass/tenor break.

>I am aggressively filing them to get a good strike surface, it really showed
>up the lack of even layering in the process, the hammers are now a little
>lop-sided. Could it be that all that stiffener helped to shape the hammer
>due to its lack of better construction by binding the layers?

>Or maybe the tears came about by aggressive needling either side
>of the crown while it was in its stiffened condition.  In either case,
>I wouldn't try more than a scant amount in the string cut in the future.

>Back to filing...
>-- 

>Regards,

>Jon Page

>PS The S&S B with VSP lightly on the strike surface is no worse for the wear.