---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dale writes: Bill Spurlock has a method for doing this as well & it's fairly low tech. I've done this a few times with his method but it's a bit slow The secret is a flat piece of steel with a hole fore the balance rail pin drilled in it.This slips over the pin on the keyframe in place of the balance punching & then the key is placed on top of it. The key front is lined up to a straight edge running across the fronts of the keys & then it is pushed down on the steel plate jig that has the tip of a center pin just protruding above the surface of the jig on each end. This puts the reference marks about 1/2" on either side of the balance hole. Remove the key ,cut out a the offending area,glue in a new piece off bass wood or whatever then hold the key in a cross vice, lay the jig back in the reference marks & drill the new hole thru the locator hole in the jig. We've used this method, too, maybe four times. The first time it took about 10 or 12 hours, but it's now about a day. It works very well. Bill details it in the May 1990 PTJ. Bob Davis ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/03/85/1a/43/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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