TUNING HAMMERS/LEVERS

[Carl Meyer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: TUNING HAMMERS/LEVERS


>
> >Thanks to all who helped me with this matter.  Sounds like hammers are a
> >fairly subjective tool, and I'm going to try several different ones out
> >and go from there.
> >David
>
> Or you could just make your own. For a long time, I used an old Hale
> extension hammer, and liked it just fine except that the way I held it was
> getting awfully hard on the hand and finger joints after 20 years or so.
> One day, out in the shop and looking for something constructive to do
> instead of cleaning up, I decided to try something different. A length of
> 7/16" stainless steel rod from the scarp bin, a 2.25" diameter gray ball
> from a fifty cent garage sale track ball (bought some months before for
> just this purpose), and about a half hour of time cutting the rod to
> length, threading the ends, JB Welding the ball on one end, and installing
> a Schaff all in one tip/head (previously purchased for this purpose) on
the
> other. An old pool ball at 2.25" would work fine, but might tend to
> diminish that exalted air of professionalism we work so hard to fake. This
> is now far and away my favorite hammer. It's light, feels as rigid as the
> Hale in use, and spreads the joint abuse out over a broad enough area that
> my hand no longer hurts - at least from tuning. It's very comfortable,
very
> controllable, and not nearly as ugly as an impact hammer.
>
> The ball initially felt a bit big to me, and I wished I had an old snooker
> ball at 2.125" to try, but I got used to the 2.25 pretty quickly and like
> it fine now, though I still miss snooker.


Ron, does Loui know about Miss Snooker?????

Carl Meyer Ptg assoc
Santa Clara, Ca.


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