shank strike weights

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Mark,
check out http://www.spurlocktools.com/id35.htm

That's what you do when you can't match varying hammer weights with 
varying shank weights to get a good average.

I think Stanwood reaches deeper into the action.  After all wood in 
the whippens can can be different dimensions and weight too.  I think 
he uses springs.  Then there's overweighted keys and misplaced capstans etc.

Andrew Anderson

At 06:58 PM 11/14/2005, you wrote:
>Ric Brekne writes:
>
> >The shank Strike weights showed a high of 2.06 grams and a
> >low of 1.40 That works out to about 3.5 grams of static
> >down weight at the key.  The hammers themselves had a few
> >big jumps here and there and started off at a mid medium
> >curve with a nice bulge up to top medium in the mid treble
> >and again in the mid high treble.  All  in all I could
> >have ended up with a real interesting set of combined s
> >trike weights had I not spent the time matching shank
> >sw's to hammer dead weights.
>
>So how'd you match them?  Big with small, big with big, or
>just trying to smooth out the bumps?  Perhaps you could post
>the hammer and shank sw that you ended up with for each note?
>
>-Mark
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