Hi Mpiano. It would be nice if you would use your name. However I have posted a photo essay that may help. 1. Iron on veneer is the best way to build up the sides of keys. It will just iron on with a regular clothes iron. Just sand the sides flush after you have built up the keys. I like the whiteness of birch, it gives a factory looking job. 2. Fit the keys on the frame and make adjustments by sanding the very narrow gaps. 3. We mill the key tops, removing about 0.030" so that we have a perfectly flat and parallel keytop. this will give a much better glue joint. We send photos at a later date if need be. ( note the nice clean notch at the rear of the molding.) 3. Once the keytop's are glued on, a good notching job makes or breaks the finish product. get a fairly small tooth file that will fit between the keys. Take it to a machinist, and have him/her grind the sides to a polished finish. This way you will not damage the right angled side of the notch. 4. Clamp a straight edge to the keys as shown. Use as a filing guide A fool proof factory looking job every time :-D 5. A built up mouse repair using west systems epoxy and micro filer. Regards Roger At 09:24 AM 4/7/2005, you wrote: > I have a Currier spinet that a client wants new keytops to be > installed. Upon removing the keys, I found that the old keytops were a > sandwich type of plastic wrapped around a thin key. If I put the > regular replacement keytops on then the sides of the key would be too > thin to fit the keytop. > Has anyone come across this? The old keys were really the white > plastic that was attached to the thin wooden key by a crinkling of the > plastic on the inside part. > Any help would be appreciated. > Mpianotex@aol.com Photos at: http://tinyurl.com/6ent7 http://tinyurl.com/47pml http://tinyurl.com/5etla http://tinyurl.com/444ap http://tinyurl.com/6plvs Direct ptg.org URLs: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/ee/91/45/23/ keytopnotch.jpg https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/af/61/56/df/File.jpg https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/e8/4e/d5/7a/notch.jpg https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/81/7d/de/4f/spacing.jpg https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/fc/05/23/62/Veneer.jpg
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