[pianotech] Voicing needle canister

[John Formsma]

Ron,

You are Der Schlickmeister! Looks pretty good.

Wim, I think your suggestion fits my laziness better. Especially since I
have one of those plastic pencil lead tubes in a drawer.


-- 
John Formsma, RPT
Blue Mountain, MS


On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote:

> I bought the canister in which pencil leads are kept. It's got a snap top,
> and is clear palstic, so you can see how many needles you've got. It holds
> about 50 needles.
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> Wim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> To: Pianotech <Pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 5:15 am
> Subject: [pianotech] Voicing needle canister
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> Out in the shop yesterday, I was sorting through various envelopes of
> voicing needles and decided it would be a fine thing to have a sturdy
> can of some sort to keep them in. There exist a number of small nifty
> wood canisters that are fine storage containers for just such, but they
> tend not to age gracefully and the lids aren't dependable. There are
> nice little plastic or glass containers too, that would be ideal. But I
> didn't have any of these. So I went to the drawer where I keep brass
> tubing and found what I needed to make one. Back at the beginning of
> time, I had made a case like this for pinning drill, file, reamer, and
> broach, that has proven to be fairly indestructible, so it ought to work
> for voicing needles too.
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> The tubing is K&S Engineering, from just about any hobby shop or
> hardware store in the country. The ends are plugged with lead free
> solder. It didn't take long to make, even with my uncharacteristically
> buffing it to a shine of sorts, and can be made as big or small as the
> tubing selection allows. I always found it much more therapeutic to make
> something rather than buying it, and this is fairly cheap therapy.
>
> Kent Swafford posted a through the strings voicing tool the other day
> made of rectangular tubing from the same source. Also available is brass
> sheeting and music wire in 3' lengths in diameters to 1/4" or more,
> useful in making special use tools of various sorts. One of the many
> often overlooked resources out there.
>
> Ron N
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