[pianotech] layout film

[Joe Goss]

available from:
GRAFIX
5800 Pennsylvania Ave
Maple Heights
Ohio 44137

Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <ptg_pianotechne at egroups.ptg.org>; "Pianotech" <Pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:28 PM
Subject: [pianotech] layout film


> 
> A couple of years ago, I bought a new roll of Grafix drafting film, 4 
> mil, 36" x 10 yards, still shrink wrapped, for something like $5 at an 
> estate sale. Not having an immediate need, I stashed it behind the 
> furnace and temporarily forgot it. Needing to do some bridge layout work 
> this weekend, I remembered it and dug it out. It's a polyester film, 
> matte finish on one side, and it's absolutely terrific for this use. 
> Transparent enough to see through easily. The matte surface accepts 
> pencil lines very nicely and erases easily (except for those antique 
> shop pencils with the erasers that have turned to pink goo or bricks). 
> At 4 mil, it's stiff enough to meet you half way and stay put as you pin 
> it to a long bridge and start transferring hole and angle positions.
> 
> Depending on the project, there's maybe a dozen pianos worth in a roll. 
> The down side is that I looked it up to see what it really cost, and it 
> was somewhere around $70 retail. Still not at all bad per piano, and the 
> stuff is sturdy enough to archive as a more or less permanent record of 
> what you did to the bridge on that particular make and model, for future 
> entertainment.
> 
> So for anyone looking to be spoiled in the pattern making category, this 
> is way uptown stuff. I just thought you'd like to know.
> 
> Ron N
>