Jim, a few cogent points . On Fri, 12 May 2000 19:07:37 EDT JIMRPT@AOL.COM writes: > Et Al; > > Working from the key bed up: > New front rail felts...no regulating punchings 'period' under the > naturals > and 1 Thick card under each of the sharps. At least the "rebuilder" didn't put those horrible little accelerated action punchings back in. This could be an improvement in the making! You know those cute little punchings on all the hitch pins, I think the "rebuilder" just misplaced them. Give the guy/gal the benefit of the doubt here James. You may be judging a bit harshly > > > Hammers are past the point of filability (is that a word?:) NO! > > New pinblock..........does not even touch the stretcher, almost > hidden by the > plate between plate and stretcher, muchless being glued and doweled. Ya'll just need to install about twenty more screws in the webbing area. It'll settle down when theblock creeps up to the flange someday. > Tuning pins at various stage of completion as to tight > coils/beckets/level. I've seen this before. The poor rebuilder was just trying to make sure that his stringing job had a least a few coils and string heights that conformed to every manufacturers OEM specs. No complaint necessary in light of this observation. > New treble strings with OLD BASS STRINGS!!!!!!! Probably can't get new high enough quality wound strings to sound better than originals. > Plate has been rebronzed and a cute little hitch pin punching adorns > each > hitch pin.................. > See observation #1 > BUT............ the dampers work well !!!!! > An obvious charlatan. If they don't thump they aren't working properly. Reach down there and mangle a few of those and it will be satisfactory. > How can these people get away with this kinda stuff? If I did a > likewise > re-something or other I would be UNDER a jail somewhere!!! > > What would you do, would you have done, if presented with the > above > instrument? I'll tell you what I did/am doing when y'all have had a > chance > to suggestionate. :-) > Jim Bryant (FL) Dale F (tongue permanently implanted in cheek) ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
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