Instead of gluing sandpaper to the ruler, glue a piece of felt to the ruler. The felt doesn't give off any residue, and grabs the other felt much better than sandpaper. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Holley <downbeat237 at verizon.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 4:44 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Cutting Felt And, to insure a perfect straight cut on the board as you cut the felt. Take a small steel square, turn one flat side up, take?fairly large grit sand paper and cut a length about 1/2" wide X?12" long, use double sided tape and tape the sand paper to the one side of the square.? Now when you have your felt ready to cut, lay the square with the sand paper side down on the felt on the line you wish to cut.? Using the rotary cutter, lined with the wheel against the leg of the square, the felt WILL NOT creep or move as you cut.? I've used the method for some time and always get great cuts with straight lines. Regards, Gordon Holley, Associate,?Indiana Chapter 467 Feb 26, 2009 03:38:55 PM, pianotech at ptg.org wrote: Get the rotary cutter. Not to take business away from our vendors, but you might be able to find one at a fabric store. Be sure to also get the pad on which to cut the felt. it gives you a nice flat, clean surface that won't dull the blade. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Noah Frere <noahfrere at gmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:29 am Subject: [pianotech] Cutting Felt This may be mundane, but I haven't cut too much felt yet. Going into this rebuild I see I'll need to cut quite a bit, and almost ordered the Rotary pizza wheel from Pianotek. But, I looked into hardware stores instead, to no avail. Then I thought I can just use scissors. But then I'd need to buy nice scissors anyway. I feel like potentially the Rotary cutter will be the easiest, most fun method. Any takers? A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090227/36c38d45/attachment.html>
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