[CAUT] Weber grand block

[Alan McCoy]

I'll second Ron's suggestion for two-pass drilling. Just finished a hybrid
block drilled this way (1/4" bit followed by an H bit, both drilled at 2600
rpm). Tunes nicely. Also this was my first use of Ron's air-lift radial
drill press set up for in-the-piano drilling, which is the cat's meow. Ron
can elaborate on it for those who haven't seen it. It is very slick.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:03:01 -0500
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Weber grand block
> 
> 
>> Thanks to all for some excellent suggestions, esp. the mock up. I
>> thought about the two different block materials. I usually replace with
>> delignit or falconwood. But wouldn't drilling be a problem as one drills
>> the different materials differently; much smaller margin for delignit?
>> Nancy
> 
> You caut types are missing out on an awful lot of tech stuff
> by not reading pianotech. I typically use a 9mm Delignit
> capped multilam block that I assemble myself, and double drill
> 1/4" first, followed by 6.8mm. Full depth, both passes.
> Ron N