This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C5E570.73F39BD0 This post is a follow up to my post a couple days ago regarding gluing = felt to treble hammer tips on an economy job because the treble hammers = had been worn down to the wood core. So now I have this set of 90-year-old hammers that look like Montana's = buttes - it appears someone filed the grooves out previously, but filed = a flat surface to the hammer top. Now keeping in mind this is a budget = job - "please just make it work", I couldn't see hand filing 88 hammers = to some idealistic shape. Then I saw my belt sander. Guess what I did? Yup, fire that sucker up and gang "file" both sides at = about 10 and 2 o'clock until the flat top was only a couple millimeters = wide. Then I took a coarse sandpaper paddle and rounded things off and = followed up with shoe-shine sanding with 220 and then 320. I think it = produced a reasonable strike surface. The rest of the hammer looks a bit = funky, but I think I have produced a reasonble strike point. If you were = to file the hammer so it had a nice egg shape, you'd end up filing way = more felt off - I figure no reason to do that - action is pretty light = as it is. I gang sanded about 10 hammers at a time (half a section) and = did not worry about hammer angle. Again, on an old worn-out piano like = this, and the desire to be economical with our work, it seems to me this = might just be a good approach to "please, just make things work". Fire away! Terry Farrell ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C5E570.73F39BD0 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/53/2c/d1/e8/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C5E570.73F39BD0-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 46148 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/93/ef/58/f8/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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