needle for bolstering knuckles??

[Mike and Jane Spalding]

OK, new question:  Where can I get a clothes ringer??

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: needle for bolstering knuckles??


> Just run a regular needle through a cloths ringer. :)
> 
> anon
> 
> Mike and Jane Spalding 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
>