---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment If you drill you new pin holes from a pattern of the old holes, might you be duplicating the misplacement of the pins which might have caused the failure in the first place? I think it is best to mark your pins holes with a line stretched between the hitch pin and agraffes. On pianos where there is just a v-bar, make a pattern of the string placement before taking them off, it will also help during their installation. Regards, Jon Page At 06:00 PM 08/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Bevelers, > >Thanks much for helping me out with el problemo. I've ordered a spokeshave, >and am excited to get a new tool! > >After looking in the reprint CD, and finding little for my specific bridge >capping (bass bridge), I decided that I would do it the most straightforward >way (to me anyway). I had made a tracing, but later decided instead to use >the old cap as a template for drilling holes. Removed the old cap (radial >arm saw), and had the hole placement and the angles already there. I did not >find this procedure in the reprints, so I don't know if this was the "proper >way" to do it. Made sense to me--is this the "right way"? I know that a >paper tracing will work fine, and that it could be somewhat better because >you can relocate the holes that were incorrectly drilled at the time of >manufacture. However, on this piano (older Howard console), it seemed just >as easy to do it by removing the top section of the old cap to use as a >template. > >Thoughts? > >John Formsma >Blue Mountain, MS > >mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a7/6f/39/c4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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