I recently did an epoxy repair to a bass bridge on a small piano. All the speaking length side bicord pins had straightened up and taken the surrounding wood with them. Pretty easy to argue that recapping was in order. Anyway, I am trying to evaluate in my mind pros and cons of recapping and epoxy repairs. How many hours would you bill a client for to remove bass strings (a spinet, so about 40+ bass strings) take off old cap, repair bridge root, glue on new cap, shape/trim new cap, drill new cap, notch new cap (just one straight bevel), install new pins, re-install bass strings, bring up to pitch (do I have all major steps?)? (I'll ask this before I tell you how long it took me to epoxy - I might be too embarrassed!) Please no responses from bionic recappers. Humans only. Thanks ;-) Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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