---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Terry So smart I've Been doing this for years now saves on the sweat factor. Hey I started reshaping Monster sets of hammers that require significant restylin with a. a razor blade. Carves off bout a gram for starters in the bass. I just cut off the bulk of the shoulder duplicating the line of the Steinway shape then finish up with Sandpaper. Less dust ....less muss. Dale 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5d/c4/34/62/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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