pinblock replacement

[David Renaud]

Hello Owen

    I had a 1897 Hientzman 7 foot to do with mortise
to the rim and attached to the stretcher that I tried
something different that may be helpful here.

    I cut about 3 inch self around the perimeter
leaving the original mortise alone. This self was of
original material was shaved down and turned into a
butt joint with 2 inches overlapping from the new
block to the old block. Once fit to the plate and
positioned onto the self there are some gaps as 
a few mm were left to accommodate positioning the
block in the piano after fitting.  bottom is dammed up
with epoxy putty to prevent leakage and the butt
joint gaps filled with East System Epoxy. Maple 
Dowels put through the old/new block shelf joint 
every 6 inches for added strength. 

   A few pics of this are found on my pic web page. 

http://davidrenaud.ca 
and click on piano repair pics.............


                           Cheers
                           Dave Renaud











__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com