---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Ron Making my own bridge pins is/would seem to be a costly & pointless waste of my time. I'd rather be fishing. As topperpiano said a black hole of endless rebuilders hours or some such. Totally I just got a supply of knickel plated pins from Pianotek & except for some who may choose to split hairs over the type of finish they prefer on their bridge pins, they are very nice looking. Its kind of like , Do Iike blue tuning pins or knickel ones. Its just a preference. Besides I've never had a client get upset at whether there new Yamaha had shiny silver pins as opposed to their previously owned grandmamerica special with the dingy blued ones. If I'm doing a bridge repin job, the function is the foremost consideration & looks second. I like both but my first choice is a tight bridge pin first without having to use a slimy messy solution of whatever to size it. My second choice is the slimy solution. However I've yet to figure out how to keep the dust out of it. Know what I mean. Maybe it's just me. I might be epoxy impaired As to David L.s question. With a slightly larger pin it may be completely un-necessary to ream or drill for the next size up. In my experience if a bridge has cracking already then any thing more than a little bit tighter will simply cause the cracking to become worse. As I said once before, I feel sorry for myself when I have to get the thoroughly epoxied pins out of a stwy bridge so I can get the caps off. Oh & not thinking to kindly of the prior installer of said messy solutions & pins. Ron Nice photos & description. Thanks for sharing this End of rant Dale Hi Dale, >Although i don not do this job frequently occasionally I find it >advantageous to pull bridge pins in an existing bridge,renotch & >then put in new pins. Likewise. > However as many of you may know from doing this that most recently >the current copper supply of bridge pins are just slightly smaller >than the most originals which obviously does not help with getting a >tight fit. This can be a problem. We've made our own pins to the required size by getting silver steel centreless ground to the oversize diameter we require, then cutting the pins from the ground lengths of silver steel. But its a slow and costly process. Renner supplies bridge pins in several graduated diameters, but these pins do not have a very high standard of finish. We've been using them to date, but I'm looking for a better quality pin. Ron O. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d1/bd/15/85/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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