[CAUT] Hammer Alignment

[David Love]

Does the ones you've glued with Bolduc glue also move the same way the ones
you did previously with hide glue?

 

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jon
Page
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:20 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Hammer Alignment

 

>Do they always end up twisting in the same direction?

yes

 

>One thought is that if you burn the shanks for straightening at the initial
installation and >you hold the heat gun, say, in your right hand, you might
be heating one side of
>the shank more than the other which might create some unequal tension in
the

>shank that might play out over the period of a few weeks or months.

 

Burning-in is done with an alcohol flame from underneath the shank. There
are

never many needing this at installation.  And why doesn't the bass twist???

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Regards,

Jon Page

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