[pianotech] Re: Rim Width

[Ron Nossaman]

>No, I'm not joking. We are, after all, pretending to
>be high class people restoring an expensive art object
>for relatively high rates of pay: not digging
>outhouses for minimumn wage.  I have always been
>deeply offended when, while working at others' shops,
>wire is drgged on floor and stepped on during
>restringing, revolting filth is left in keybeds, and
>actions are worked on after wiping grease from fried
>chicken on shirt instead of washing ( all of which I
>have actually seen ). Whenever I enter a customer's
>house, the first thing I ask is: "Is there someplace I
>can wash my hands?" I do this wheteher the patient is
>a new, pristine Schimmel or a filthy old Wurtilizer.
>driving, pumping gas, handling $ etc.. is sure to get
>your hands pretty slimy. One very popular tuner around
>here NEVER washes, and has left a long trail of rusty
>handprints all over pressure bars, strings, etc. due
>to his acid sweat. I believe that everything is
>actually God's property, and strive to treat it as
>such.
>      Gordon Stelter

And how might all this even remotely relate to using a piece of new 
plywood, clean side to the soundboard perimeter, as a temporary clamping caul?

Ron N