This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The sides were solid hard maple? I've never seen that - but I haven't = yanked that many old uprights apart. You are throwing the back out? = Solid oak? Why not use it? Make braces, fish, etc. out of it. Can you better explain what you are doing with the treble caps? = Reversing the grain? Do bridge caps have meaningful impedance properties? Thanks. Terry Farrell The boys & I picked up another free 1890s bush& gerts upright the = other day. As I posted some time back I occasionally find a cache of = maple in these old beauties worth many hundreds of dollars which I use = for bridge caps & pinblocks etc. But this one was solid maple. Yes every = piece except oddly the back posts which were oak. Dennis & Jacob tore = the it down to the skeleton in an hour & half. The back is sitting out = front with a free sign on it. The sides popped off with a crow bar & that was that. This was a = true treasure trove of tight grained maple. Street value , if you could = find it probably 3 to 400 dollars. my minimum wage help cost me about 60 = bucks in labor. It ws a bargain. Not all is suitable for bridge capping = but it is for many other uses The really tight grain makes the prettiest tenor/treble bridge caps = I've ever seen. The smaller narrow pieces I glue up to make pieces wide = enough for the treble caps .I reverse the grain orientation which = allows to notch with the grain no matter which side I'm starting on. = The glue joints are virtually invisible, if that matters & it's pretty = in shellac. The tighter, denser totally, quartered wood makes for a = treble cap with excellent impedance properties. It was fun Dale Erwin=20 Erwins Pianos Restorations=20 4721 Parker Rd. Modesto, Ca 95357 209-577-8397 Rebuilt Steinway , Mason &Hamlin Sales www.Erwinspiano.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a3/3a/a9/66/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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