You have yourself a little echo chamber there...must sound interesting when your muttering... '-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 Original message From: Farrell To: Received: 2/25/2009 3:35:17 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] workbench I agree with Ron N - doesn't appear very substantial. The route I went, if you find value in recycling, was to put new life into a most-hated spinet. Start by removing the front panels, action and keybed. Then add keybed arm extensions, bottom-of-case short extensions and a cross piece (I used cheap 2x4s and 2x6s for all these), and roll the piano forward so that the piano back is up. You say you have a table-top already - well, just glue/screw/whatever your top to the back of the piano - and walla! - you have yourself a near-zero cost VERY heavy duty, VERY solid table. If you like, put a shelf on the bottom like I did - it also has a short shelf up higher (see next picture) made from the knee board. AND it's very musical (more musical than when it had keys, no doubt) - every tool slammed on the table has it's own unique sound signature (gets the strings going). Great conversation piece for shop visitors..... I love this bench - my long-time favorite. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Richmond To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:03 PM Subject: [pianotech] workbench Greetings: My current shop set up isn't working very well for me. I tried to duplicate the set up I had years at IWU--it worked well there, but not here. Among other changes, I am considering either this work bench (but substituting the bench top I have) or purchasing legs, stretcher, & shelf separately to use with my bench top. Does anyone know if the quality offered by this company is OK? I couldn't find any reviews of the merchandise, but maybe I didn't look in the right places. http://www.globalindustrial.com/gcs/prod/30036934/i/productInfo.web?utm_source=nextag&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=IndustrialWorkBe-nextag Thanks, Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090225/eaad4da5/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpg Size: 51675 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090225/eaad4da5/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpg Size: 53735 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090225/eaad4da5/attachment-0003.jpg>
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