my own Soundboard

[Greg Newell]

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Terry,
    This might be a good excuse to purchase a drum sander. Performax or
Delta it really doesn't matter as long as the cantilever design will
accommodate most or all of the board. Of you who have made boards in the
past, what width is the panel before shaping to the piano? The Delta is
a bit wider so that might just make it or leave a small amount for hand
or hand tool sanding or scraping. What 'chu think?


Greg

Farrell wrote:

> So then you are gluing up your 24" subpanels after they have been
> planed to the soundboard's final thickness (not counting edge
> tapering)? Can one edge glue accurately enough to get a real even
> subpanel-to-subpanel joint (no step from one to the other)? I was
> envisioning gluing up a whole soundboard panel that was thicker than
> needed and then (after driving the panel to a shop with BIG
> sanders/planers) running the whole thing through a planer device to
> get your nice consistent final (before tapering) thickness. If I am
> understanding your process, you do the above on your smaller
> subpanels, but then when you have glued your subpanels together, you
> do any slight evening up by a hand plane or sanding (or maybe even
> that is not needed?)? Thanks. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message
> -----
>
>      From: Delwin D Fandrich
>      To: pianotech@ptg.org
>      Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:19 AM
>      Subject: Re: my own Soundboard
>
>
>           ----- Original Message -----
>           From: Greg Newell
>           To: pianotech@ptg.org
>           Sent: January 15, 2002 3:56 PM
>           Subject: Re: my own Soundboard
>            Thanks Del. I was still talking about edge
>           gluing. I would not advocate joining two pieces
>           end to end in a soundboard situation. Never
>           crossed my mind.
>
>      Why not? I'm planning on doing it on a piano I'm
>      remanufacturing for myself. It's been done quite
>      successfully in the past. I'll not be using a finger joint,
>      however. I haven't quite decided what to use.
>
>           Has anyone ever tried gluing up 2 boards first,
>           then adding one at a time until the desired panel
>           size is achieved?
>
>      We glue up sub-panels that are less than 24" wide (so we can
>      still run them through our thickness planer) and then glue
>      up the final panel. Once you get started you will
>      undoubtedly come up with your own ideas. There is no one
>      'right' way to do this stuff. Just a bunch of acceptable to
>      good ways. Del
>
>
>
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Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net


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