Thinning hammer shanks,

[Susan Kline]

At 08:36 AM 9/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings all,
>     For some time, I have been taking a file and reducing the wood on the
>last octave or so hammers.  Now,  all this talk about woody sounds and big
>hammer shanks have got me thinking -> Time to get my genius out and build a
>jig to cut hammershanks down.  But wait.......
>     Who out there has been doing this, and what have you found?  
>
>Thanks, 
>Ed Foote
>( probably going to re-invent a wheel here, but it will be a *good* wheel, I
>hope)
>
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Hi, Ed

There was a good Journal article by Bill Spurlock awhile back about thinning
shanks for the treble using a jig and router. I'll try to dig it up, if you
like.

(I can hardly wait the for CD Rom of the Journal to come out!!)

Yours,

Susan

Susan Kline 
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