shank strike weights

[Farrell]

And you can hollow out the tail cove, and you can add weight by drilling 
holes in the moulding and installing lead.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> 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