Ron, Looks like I misunderstood you question. A large thickness sander seems like over kill for thicknessing key top material. Maybe you could rig up a mini thicknesser on your drill press. Use a sanding drum and build a fence to guide the key top through. Feed the tops in counter to the rotation of the drum. Are you planning on installing these thin key tops on a keyboard? If so I don't think that would be prudent. If you reduce the plastic to the thickness of ivory you invite a number of problems. The plastic could develop waves and lumps like you see on early plastic key tops. I bet it would also become loose much earlier than it should. There is probably a good reason that plastic key tops used on high quality keyboards are thicker than the old ivory. If you are serious about recovering keyboards with plastic I think it would be better to try to find a way to use ones that have the front covers attached. I am convinced that these can hold up better over time than the earlier separate top and front. I am using the high quality German plastic key tops in both new keyboards and in recovering. They have have a smooth overhang and their head scale is just right for the kind of pianos I work on. They only come in octave sections and for recovering you have to first cut them apart. John Hartman Ron Lindquist wrote: > > > 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, > .
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