A friend, a fine guitar maker, was learning how to work on pianos from us. He had the idea to use an abrasive planer and it worked very well and according to him was more efficient than any method we showed him. Have to go on a tuning now and he's at work, will find out the details from him this evening. Diane >From: Ron Lindquist <ronli@newnorth.net> >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Subject: Re: NPR- Abrasive Surfacer, (Planer) >Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 09:51:04 -0600 > >At 05:44 PM 12/3/00 -0500, you wrote: >>Ron, >> >>I have an abraive planer but I wouldn't use it for removing ivory or >>plastic >>from keys. I use a table saw with a 10" carbide blade. I've made a carage >>that >>stradles the rip fence to safely hold the keys. I can adjust the setup to >>cut >>the ivory off and leave the glue. Every key will be the same thickness and >>the >>tops will be paralell with the bottoms. You can cut the keys a little >>deeper >>to recieve plastic so the finished serface is the same as the oriiginal >>ivories. You will need a quality table saw with minimal run out to get >>good >>results. Adrasive planer are great tools but they would be to slow and >>mesy >>for this job. >> >>To end the cut so there is no scarring behind the key tops. I have a jig >>that >>runs the key over a dado blade. The new key tops are nicely inserted in >>the >>keys with no tool marks visible. I use an 8" carbide dado blade so the >>back >>checks clear the saw table. >> >>John Hartman >> >>Ron Lindquist wrote: >> >> > List ees, Does anyone have a abrasive planer ?Thinking about getting >>one >> > so I can get key tops the thickness I want. >> > >> > Would appreciate talking to someone who had one. Also interested to >>learn >> > if you can get the abrasive belts in different materials for ivory and >> > plastic removal. >> > TKS, > >John, I planed on using the surfacer to resize the key tops before I put >them on Then I would not have to remove wood from keys. What do you >think? > >Thanks, >. > > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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