Pinblock Plugs, was: Nice Baldwin Pinblock

[Carl Meyer]

There are longer plug cutters available.  I'd use a vortec cooler.    

And!!!!!  I see no reason not to use two plugs per hole.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: Pinblock Plugs, was: Nice Baldwin Pinblock


> At 07:11 2/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have purchased plugs from Web Phillips in the past. They appear to be 
> >cut from multi-lam rotary cut supply house brand X pinblock material. Many 
> >of them fall apart. I don't think I want to use them again. I will make a 
> >quarter sawn pinblock, much like the Bolduc, but only epoxy assembled and 
> >with the upper 1/2" made up of quarter sawn 2 mm thick laminations with 
> >the grain running in the direction of string pull. After cutting plugs 
> >from it, I will then epoxy the plugs into slighly enlarged holes.
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >
> 
> 
> 
> I'm glad to see this discussion. Funny how timing works out sometimes.
> 
> Friday, I finally started seriously looking into my Krakauer grand and 
> discovered it has a stepped block.  Not only that, but it's construction is 
> like Steinway in that it is integral with rim and stretcher.  Not only 
> THAT, but the bottom of the block is below the front edge of the stretcher. 
> To allow for the fallboard, the block/stretcher is not champhered (like 
> some Baldwins I've done), but coved and finished.
> 
> I used Falconwood plugs ~15 years ago to do an 1889 Chickering 4-section 
> block and an 1876 Haines square - both of which are holding 440 quite 
> well.  This Krakauer looks like a good candidate for plugs and, with my 
> past successes, I had been thinking of falconwood.
> 
> What kind and where are there good quality plugs available? My plug cutters 
> only will handle about 3/4" material. That isn't enough, is it??? The 
> falconwood were 1 3/8"+.
> 
> 
> 
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
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