needle for bolstering knuckles??

[Mike and Jane Spalding]

Greg,

Thanks for the link, and thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on needles, cloth,  and yarn.  Yes, that looks like exactly what I was looking for.  I've ordered a 10-pack for $1.99 of 2-pronged lacing needle part #119000.  If the results are either exceptionally good, or exceptionally bad, I'll let y'all know.

Mike Spalding RPT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: needle for bolstering knuckles??


> What you describe here sounds suspiciously like a needle used by leather workers 
> to pull the stitching though the edges of wallets or purses or whatever they hold 
> together with leather stitching these days. I would try Tandy Leather at 
> http://www.tandyleather.com/products.asp?dept=165    . This should be the page for 
> needles and they do have a two pronged end into which you place leather stitching 
> or lacing. I suppose you could use felt, though I've not tried it. I actually thought of it 
> once but never did. You would probably want to glue harden the end before you put 
> it in the needle. Hope this helps.
> 
> Greg Newell
> 
> On 16 Jul 2002 at 21:33, Mike and Jane Spalding wrote:
> 
> > List,
> > 
> > I recently discovered that by bolstering the knuckles on a well-worn
> > grand action, I can avoid all that capstain turning and let-off rail
> > raising that I hate to do!  I've been using a modified darning needle
> > to pull a 2mm wide strip of bushing cloth through the knuckles.  The
> > foldover at the eye is very difficult to pull through, and it
> > stretches the buckskin more than I'd like.  In Chicago, one of the
> > instructors (if I could remember who, I would contact him
> > individually) described a flat needle with some kind of clip to grip
> > the end of the action cloth, that he uses for knuckle bolstering.  He
> > called it a glovers needle, and said the supply houses carry them. 
> > Well, the supply house glovers needles are triangular cross-section
> > voicing needles, aren't they?  So does anyone know what this flat
> > needle is really called, and where I can get one?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Mike Spalding, RPT
> > 
> > 
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