[CAUT] Artist Benches

[Zeno Wood]

Hi Paul,

Echoing what Fred sed, you should call up Jansen and establish an account,
and get them to explain their wholesale pricing.

That said, they sell a kit to refurbish the bench mechanism to eliminate the
wobble.  It's just a bag of metal bushings and the like, but it's a great
way to bring your (Jansen) artist bench back to feeling like new, with no
wobble, or at least very little.  You shouldn't expect to have much wobble
with a new bench from anyone.

Regards,
Zeno Wood
Brooklyn College


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> I think the Schaff benches are provided by Jansen, though possibly GRK. You
> might give them a call and ask. Jansen's wholesale prices are comparable to
> what the piano supply houses charge us.
> Do Jansen benches wobble a bit? Well, yes, there is a certain amount of
> play, though I don't find it problematic. There has to be a bit of play, or
> the mechanism wouldn't adjust. Excess wobble happens when screws and bolts
> aren't all tightened, and when the bushings wear, so it might pay to look
> closely and see where the wobble is coming from. Looking more closely at
> your question, describing the central threaded rod with washers on each
> side, I'm thinking it's GRK, since that doesn't describe current Jansen
> design (I don't know what GRK is doing these days). In which case, you can
> probably tighten up by using an allen wrench to loosen a positioning
> setscrew and adjust to take up any slack (but that is from memory of what I
> think you are describing).
> I've been happy with Jansen benches.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
> fssturm at unm.edu
>
>
>
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