traveling

[David Love]

David:

I think she means that after you travel the shanks with the hammers already 
hung, you will have to burn the shanks in order to reorient the hammers to 
vertical.

David Love


>From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@jps.net>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: traveling
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:17:15 -0800
>
>List,
>
>I remember a class I (partially) took from Pris Rappaport some years ago on 
>hammer hanging.  She wanted to make a point about not needing to travel the 
>shanks before hanging the hammers.  She purposely shimmed a flange on each 
>student's jig with traveling paper before the class hung their hammers.  
>Apparently burning in the shanks would do the trick...I still can't figure 
>this out...I can understand burning in the shanks to align the hammers but 
>how does this travel hammers?
>
>David I.
>

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