Well...let's see a photo of the NossaNotcher... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 4/7/2010 9:11:34 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Pitch change, etc. >Terry Farrell wrote: >> Hi Will, >> >> That Ron guy who responded to your post has a great POWER notcher - easy >> for him to say it's not hard to hand-notch! >But I didn't say that. It *is* hard to notch. I said it's >doable, but difficult, which is both true and accurate. >>That being said, it may just >> be my poor notching skills, but I did make up a cap of quarter-sawn 0.5 >> mm laminations early on in my cap building efforts and found it quite >> difficult to notch. Yes, I could do it, but it sure didn't look very >> good. Again, maybe it's my lack of notching skill, maybe the >> quarter-sawn is more difficult to chisel smoothly than flat-sawn - I >> don't know. No reason for you to not give it a try though. >My poor notching skills (and poor back) is certainly what >prompted me building the notcher in the first place. >> What I have been doing is building laminating caps with quarter-sawn 1.5 >> mm laminations. I'll usually have about six laminations in a cap. These >> I find easier to hand notch as you are usually only going through two >> bonding surfaces or so. >Yes, my first laminated caps were 1.5mm layers, and they are >much less difficult to notch. They also aren't quite as hard >and dimensionally stable as veneer, and more time consuming to >make. >> Do they perform as well as the thinner laminations (stability, clarity, >> etc.)? I don't know for sure as I have not ever tested side-by-side. >> They do however seem to work quite well. I also set each bridge pin in >> epoxy (put epoxy in hole and on pin). >They sure work a lot better than solid maple, and the epoxy in >the hole when pinning helps too. >Ron N
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