You don't need an expensive router. Trying to do these by hand will convince you to buy one. Bill Spurlock had a couple of homade jigs. One for trimming sides and the other for trimming the notch. You can probably search to PTG magazine archives for plans.I have done may a keytop job with these. They work great. Dick Day Marshall MI From: ilvey at sbcglobal.netTo: pianotech at ptg.orgSubject: keytop trimmingDate: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:35:37 -0700 Archives... List, can anyone give me an idea for the most accurate and least costly way of trimming new keytops? I have installed the German one peace tops and fronts sold by Pianotek and now need to perform the worse part of the job... Filing these is a time consuming activity! So I'm thinking the obvious thing to do is cut the tops flush with the side of the key and round off the edges and corners afterward. I don't have a router and don't really want to get one, so how about a Dremel? Would that work worth a darn? Any suggestions? I have no plans of going into the keytop business but I have two other pianos that need tops and I'm to cheap to send the work out. The way I see it is I have the time so why not just keep that extra money I would spend to farm the work out. Thanks as always! Shawn Brock, RPT 513-316-0563 www.shawnbrock.com _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_102008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20081029/6f34c5b7/attachment.html
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