needle for bolstering knuckles??

[ted simmons]

I'm reading off my package of such needles that I've had for years.  10
two-inch needles cost me 98 cents.  They are from Tandy Leather Company and
they're called "2-inch prong lace needles".  I bought them either at a
fabric store or at Walmart's craft department.

Ted Simmons

> From: "Mike and Jane Spalding" <mjbkspal@execpc.com>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:33:08 -0500
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: needle for bolstering knuckles??
> 
> 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
> 
>