[CAUT] Mythbusters

[David Ilvedson]

Diamond grit...?   Where does one get that?   I've been happy with that stuff Jurgen sells at astronomical prices...It's 3M, so I'm on the hunt whole sheets.   It has a plastic like backing.   I want to glue it to my paddles...

Did he do a lot of deep needling in the lower shoulders before or after filing?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Greg Granoff" <Gregory.Granoff at humboldt.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 3/10/2010 11:02:27 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Mythbusters


>He uses teflon tape backed strips of diamond grit paper only just as wide as
>an individual hammer.
>He begins with around 320 I think he said, graduates to maybe 600 if he
>feels it necessary, and finishes off with 1200.  Obviously, the procedure
>might eliminate the coarsest grit if it wasn't necessary to actually reshape
>significantly. In the class, he began by making a very small change in the
>shape of the hammer, eliminating a slight bulge in the shoulders facing the
>keyboard that made a slightly asymmetrical look. He holds the strip against
>the hammer shoulder to index the strip's horizontal angle for a straight
>striking point.  Later, if he is fine mating hammers to strings, he has even
>narrower strips to make the change he needs on one string position at a
>time. He finds these problems with the method of lifting the hammer/shank to
>the string with a hook, and plucking with a tapered hammer shank. He says he
>never files through the strings for mating, since he is fanatical about
>keeping the correct shape on the "nose" of the hammer, as he called it, and
>his strip method lets him do this. 

>Greg

>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred
>Sturm
>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:24 AM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Mythbusters

>On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Greg Granoff wrote:

>> For me, it was extremely useful to see his hammer filing technique  
>> (he never
>> gang-files) and the materials he used, and he kept up a running  
>> commentary
>> as he worked, crisply answering questions in a careful but efficient
>> Germanic way without ever losing momentum.


>How does he file? Paddle? Strip?
>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
>University of New Mexico
>fssturm at unm.edu