hammer shaping

[Dick Beaton]

You can gang file only the hammers that line up properly.  The angled
ones..mostly in upper bass need to be filed individually.  Make sure the end
result is a ROUND strike point like it was when new.
Dick RPT MT
----- Original Message -----
From: <pianolover@worldspy.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:19 AM
Subject: hammer shaping


> Hi All,
>
> I got my first shot at hammer shaping in the shop, and I wanted to ask for
opinions on a method of shaping several hammers at once. I was told a common
name for this method is called "gang (or group) filing." After each