Anyone done this?

[Carl Meyer]

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Alan: Put a 3/8 router bit in a right angle die grinder and make a =
template and take off in small increments.  Watch for metal screws.

I once routed out the entire underside of a block to 1 inch depth and =
installed a block from the bottom.  This was in an antique grand with an =
exposed block and the agraffes were screwed into the block.  Lotsa work, =
but easier than trying to replace the block.  I saved it from the =
landfill.

Carl Meyer PTG assoc
Santa Clara, Ca.=20
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  Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:54 PM
  Subject: Anyone done this?



  Tiny, crappy grand. Someone did major repairs(?) to ribs, soundboard, =
etc. A real hatchet job with great globs of epoxy ...

  They replaced the block and restrung it not too badly except they used =
a block so thick that you can't get the action out without tilting it =
and I still snapped off one bass hammer. Drop screws barely clear when =
the action is in.

  Measured the depth of holes to bottom of pins and it's almost an inch!

  Any reason one couldn't take a belt sander to the underside of that =
board and grind off about a 1/4" in the bass, 1/8" in tenor and treble? =
No room for a router.

  Alan R. Barnard
  Ready to Sand, Sander in Hand in Salem, Missouri


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