Speaking of tools

[Jon Page]

At 01:02 AM 3/5/98, you wrote:
Re: Taut Line Regulation Guide (TLRG for short),

>	Why not just make your own?  
>					Greg
>


Thanks a lot.

Another handy tool is Chris Gregg's Hammer Fitting Block.
I used it yesterday for the first time even though it was floating
around the bottom of my tool case for a while, forgotten.

Chris reminded me of it on mIRC Tuesday night and fortunately 
I just filed a set of hammers on a drum sander that day.
It put a nice finish on the hammers and will come in handy
when its time to do some fitting. I moved it to my smaller tuning case
where it will be 'on top' and used often. I'm ordering more.

Yes, Greg; I could make one myself, but I won't.  Chris' efforts
should be rewarded. The block is harder to make than the TautLine
but not impossible, but my time is better spent getting work done
rather than trying to save a pittance.

Sometimes by putting ideas up for grabs, the product doesn't catch on
even though it is a good idea. ( Becket Tool for one :-)     It takes the
initiative of someone to place the item in the public eye and keep it
there for the product to get the recognition it deserves. I have no doubt
that someone along the line thought of the TautLine before, but it was
left as a idea and not a product and disappeared. I would not have been
compelled to design this apparatus if it were already available.
The portability is what I needed along with ease of attachment. I went thru
many prototypes over the course of a few years until I found the simplest
application. I could_not_ make it any simpler. Bang, there it was.

I thought of sending in the idea with a drawing for techs to make themselves
but took the route of making lot of them and approaching a supplier with the
idea. This was after field use and samples sent out to techs for their
response
and they all encouraged my promotion of the item.
Fortunately, Pianotek recognised the need for this tool and is carrying it.

Whose to benefit from this?  I make a little for man'r', Pianotek makes a
little
for offering it to techs in their catalogue but it is the technical
comunity who
befefits from the complement of tools added to their arsenal.




Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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