Speaking of tools

[Ted Simmons]

Jon,
  I watched a Thomas Edison documentary last night in which the commentator
made a statement that although Edison's crew was responsible for a lot of
his inventions, he was the one that followed through with them and got them
patented and manufactured. Your case may fit this description.  Anyhow,
your simple tool has made life easy for a lot of us technicians.
  By the way, tell me more about Chris Gregg's Hammer Fitting Block.  Never
heard of it.

  Ted Simmons, Merritt Island, FL


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