On Wed, 27 Mar 1996 07:01:46 -0700 (MST) you wrote: >I have a question regarding the use of the Bushmaster tool. I bought one >about a year or two ago, but haven't used it. It is a well made tool, and I >like the idea behind it, but it seems to me that it puts too much cloth into >the mortise. I've always butted the ends of the bushing cloth over the hole >in the key, then used the cauls to push the cloth down the sides of the >mortise. So the amount of cloth I insert is equal to 1/2 the width of the >hole in the key. Too little would be better then too much > >The bushmaster puts a piece of cloth closer to 3/4 the width of the hole. > (I'm talking about a hole for a .146" key pin) Since I bought it, I want to >use it! (<---My Scottish blood talking there), but not if it's not going to >allow me to do the job correctly. I'm just curious if anyone else feels this >is too much, (or have I been using too little?) > >Gordon Large >Maine Gordon, Could you not just file some of the brass off of the end that pushes felt in the key untill it suits your needs? Greg Greg & Mary Ellen Newell Greg's Piano Forte' 12970 Harlon Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 e-mail; gnewell@en.com or dt945@cleveland.freenet.edu
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