needle for bolstering knuckles??

[Norman Barrett]

Hi all,

I'm not familiar with the class you are talking about but what you are describing sounds very much like a leather lacing needle. I used to get them from Tandy Leather and their name has been changed and I cannot remember the new name. I hope that this helps.

Norm Barrett
Memphis chapter PTG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: needle for bolstering knuckles??


> The class was Guy Nichols', in Chicago. I wrote it up for the Journal, 
> since it
> had a lot of interesting ideas. I'm still looking for the needles he had, too.
> They had sort of notches in place of the usual eye, so one could just pull a
> thin piece of cloth into them from the rear, instead of having the thread it.
> He used a thin bushing cloth strip 1/8" wide, or a little less.
> 
> Susan
> 
> At 09:33 PM 7/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >List,
> >
> >I recently discovered that by bolstering the knuckles on a well-worn grand 
> >action, I can avoid all that capstain turning and let-off rail raising 
> >that I hate to do!  I've been using a modified darning needle to pull a 
> >2mm wide strip of bushing cloth through the knuckles.  The foldover at the 
> >eye is very difficult to pull through, and it stretches the buckskin more 
> >than I'd like.  In Chicago, one of the instructors (if I could remember 
> >who, I would contact him individually) described a flat needle with some 
> >kind of clip to grip the end of the action cloth, that he uses for knuckle 
> >bolstering.  He called it a glovers needle, and said the supply houses 
> >carry them.  Well, the supply house glovers needles are triangular 
> >cross-section voicing needles, aren't they?  So does anyone know what this 
> >flat needle is really called, and where I can get one?
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Mike Spalding, RPT
> 
>