Part 2: Ronsen hammers: was Chickering rebuild -- touchweight.

[David Love]

Paul:

By the way, I agree that good filing makes a huge difference.  I always 
order the sets unbored and gang file them in a hammer clamp before I bore 
them.

David Love


>From: Yardarm103669107@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Ronsen hammers: was Chickering rebuild -- touchweight.
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:03:28 EST
>
>David:
>Ditto. I have always used SW hammers on SW, and after shaping, working on 
>the
>shoulders of all of the hammers with lacquer. But the first shaping makes a
>huge difference before any chemicals. The quality of tone generation I get
>with that shaping pretty much tells me how much and where to concentrate my
>efforts. With SW, I have found that I need at least two passes with 4:1 to
>get close to where I want to be. From there it's spot application, 
>sometimes
>groups; then evening everything out. I always go back over the hammer tops
>with very fine paper to get rid of the felt raised by the lacquer
>application. Also, for attack, I apply a couple of drops of acetone 
>(actually
>the solution from Pianotek works just fine) directly on the strike point,
>then shallow needle for evenness. Thanks for your responses.
>Paul

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