Stringing jig

[Avery]

Is this in Houston?

Avery

At 07:01 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote:

>Michelle,
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>Call Mike White at Plum Pianos and see if he has some waste pinblock 
>material of the right size, and ask him to drill the holes.  With 
>Paul's instructions, sounds like you could make a killer jig!  The 
>next time I go through there, I think I'll ask him (or probably 
>Markus, who is more likely to be there!) for some spare pinblock.
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>Richard
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: PAULREVENKOJONES <paulrevenkojones at aol.com>
>To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:58:46 PM
>Subject: Re: Stringing jig
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>Michelle:
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>Here at the school I made 6 jigs in about an hour for our students 
>from pieces of pinblock material, 8" x 24" with a tuning pin toward 
>one end as the hitch (anything else would pull out and it just means 
>that you have to make your single-loop bigger to adapt, not a bad 
>attitude to have), and two pins offset toward the front. In between, 
>I created a large half-round from a 1 1/2" dowel for a bearing 
>surface at the front, and a smaller half-round from a 3/4" dowel as 
>a rear bearing surface. There are no agraffes, but it's plenty like 
>a stringing reality to get the job done; splicing in the 
>non-speaking length is just as tricky. The jigs are clamped flat to 
>mimic grands, and double-clamped vertically to mimic uprights so 
>that students get to figure out the differences between wirebend 
>strategies for the two. If you want a picture let me know.
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>Paul
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>"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune cookie)
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>In a message dated 05/02/07 18:19:39 Central Daylight Time, 
>michelle at smithpianoservice.com writes:
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>Hi all.  Does anyone have a stringing jig they would like to sell 
>for not-too-much money?  I need to start thinking about the PTG technical exam.
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>Thanks!
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>Michelle Smith
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>Smith Piano Service
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>Bastrop, Texas
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>(512) 466-0238
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>michelle at smithpianoservice.com
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