Jumping Tuning pins:a

[Warren Fisher]

SGrossner@aol.com wrote:
>  I assume that you like a 3 turn coil. I also surmise
> that you hammer it in to some easily determined index (before backing it
> off-perhaps to where the threads just show at the top?) to allow a neat row
> of pins as viewed from the top when done. 

Sam, I understood him to mean he did the first pin that way and used it
for the correct height to set the others?




What about a jig of some sort to
> set the pin height to the optimum depth without backing them off? Perhaps a
> block of wood up against the side of the pin would stop the punch at the
> desired height. I tried a shank taped to the punch

Sam you can put on a second shank on the other side.  Works pretty good.

Warren
-- 
Home of the Humor List
Warren D. Fisher
fish@communique.net
Registered Piano Technician
Piano Technicians Guild
New Orleans Chapter 701