The sidewall cut was actually done with a small saw. The sharpened putty knife/paint scraper was used to cut the notch. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 2:51 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Of Chisels In a message dated 10/11/2010 4:28:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: I believe her favorite tool was a sharpened paint scraper. David, I was in the same class, and if I recall correctly, which is becoming more and more difficult these days, she used a sharpened and shaped putty knife for creating the sidewall cut to connect the kerf to the bridge pin hole. Does that ring a bell? Mazzaglia also has two types of these sidewall chisels. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101011/918fd0d9/attachment-0001.htm>
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