You only get the chatter if you try to remove too much material at once. A very light reaming doesn't seem to do that. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:49 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Polishing Agraffes In a message dated 9/24/2009 8:03:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: One light turn with one of those little reamers Take a close look (with a decent microscope) at the results of using the reamer. You might be startled. All they do is (mostly) get rid of the string cut, leaving large chatter marks in the brass perpendicular to the string plane. I suppose you spend a great deal of time on bridges; I do. Why not treat the other end of the speaking length with equal care? My take. P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090924/3333d2af/attachment.htm>
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