Hi Tom The basic method you describe is how I've been hanging hammers for eons now. I use a piece of dilignit pinblock leftover that I cut off to size. With the laminates facing upwards they form essentially these nice straight reference lines for the tails. One little bit that should be pointed out here... depending on how you do things you can potentially follow a tail and strike line and get your rake to vary from bass to treble. Its a good idea to do two end samples for each section no matter what you otherwise do and make sure you have exactly the rake angle you want before desciding without further ado to follow an existing strike line and apparent tail line. I've thought several times about routing down an 8th of an inch about half the surface so as to have a ledge to act as a stop for the tails, but find the laminate layers to be good enough. I tried the Spurlock jig on Rogers recommendation. He was kind enough to bring me one for a convention he attended her some years back. Never could get used to it and I didnt like the fact that I could only really sight down one section at a time. Cute Bill they sent you :) Cheers RicB List First of all, let me share with you a great way to hang hammers. (Maybe this has been covered already...) There is this tool called a "Hammer Filing Rail" available from Steinway. It costs about $40 (usually) and is just a piece of wood the length of a grand action with a little ledge built into the top edge. The hammer tails sit on the ledge and brace the hammers when you file them. It's also great to use when hanging hammers. With the rail in place, and your guide hammers's tails on the little ledge, you can hang the new hammers by lining up their tails on the ledge and using a straight edge to align the front and/or back of the hammer felts. I get really good results using this method. I always borrowed my friend's "Steinway stick", as we used to call it, whenever I needed to hang hammers, and finally last month, I decided to buy my own. So I called Steinway, ordered one, and put it on my credit card. The bill came yesterday. Steinway had billed me $1144 for the stick. When I talked to them, they said they accidentally charged me $1,100 for shipping, instead of $11. In a way, I'm lucky that the amount of overcharge was so dramatic. If they had charged me an extra $50, I might not have noticed. It was the huge balance on the credit card that prompted me to look to see where I had spent that much money. Tom Sivak Chicago -- -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: pianotech-owner at ptg.org Subject: The $1,144 "Steinway stick" Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:59:35 -0600 Size: 5621 Url: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071014/76ffa8c8/attachment.eml
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