In a message dated 97-05-09 12:42:51 EDT, Richard Moody wrote: << For burnishing, I lean towards the traditional tapered comercial kind. >> Richard - The problem with this tapered burnisher, (and the tapered reamer, for that matter,) is that the finished hole is not uniform in size throughout. With Don Mannino's method, however, there is a built-in burnisher. When you push the reamer in you first burnish the felt, then re4am it, and finally burnish it again when withdrawing the tool. Since I got my set after seeing a class given by Don at a convention, I wouldn't be caught without them. The only thing I have found lacking in them was that I had to make a smaller guage reamer for one certain brand piano that takes a #18 center pin in the damper flanges, which are always in need of reaming. (By the way, this piano is no longer manufactured, but I still service many of them!) John Elving, RPT Sacramento, CA
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