This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment And as the depressed owner of a 40 year-old sailboat with about 200 = steam-bent ribs - about half of which are cracked - I know all too well = that even when you steam bend a rib it will always want to go some = distance toward straightening back out. Laminate or cut the curve - on = new wood. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com> >=20 > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: "Alan Forsyth" <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: October 08, 2003 6:22 PM > Subject: Restoring crown (was RC Vs CC again) > > > > Hi Del, thanks for your post. When you say "We do not typically heat = ribs > > sufficiently to either give them crown or to remove crown once it is > > established however." does this mean that, say in an old banger > situation, > > one could theoretically restore crown by heat setting the ribs = instead of > > going through the uneconomic procedure of re-building a soundboard? >=20 > Sure. Of course you'd have to take the soundboard and ribs out of the = piano > first. Then separate the ribs from the panel. All without damaging > anything. Then heat the ribs and bend them to your desired radius. = And, > finally, reassemble the whole thing. A good days work. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/93/96/75/53/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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