Open Face Pinblock Building

[gordon stelter]

That's really gorgeous work, Terry! As I was tuning my
open-faced Everett this weekend I marvelled at how
many open faced blocks are smoother, more uniform, and
still tighter than their contemporaneous covered
brethren. Why? Betterwood? Better woodworking?
Seasoning ? The fact they were varnished ??? 
     I wondered if the fact that covered blocks became
the fashion encouraged manufacturers to think that
they could get away with making them more cheaply ?
Can you state specifically what made these great old
blocks tick?

     Thump


--- Terry <terry@farrellpiano.com> wrote:

> FWIW, my latest creation:
> 
> 
> 
> I am in the process of remanufacturing a Knabe 6' 4"
> grand. It has an open pinblock configuration. I've
> made a few of my own quarter-sawn hard-maple
> pinblocks, but Ron Nossaman (thank you) turned me on
> to the idea of using a relatively inexpensive
> Pianotek multi-lam hard maple pinblock (rotary sawn)
> and capping it with Delignit. One can either use
> Delignit pinblock material or their bridge-capping
> material (thinner laminations). I have capped this
> multi-lam pinblock with a 5 mm cap of Delignit
> bridge-capping material (laminations 2 through 6).
> The top lamination (1 mm max) is a veneer of Jatoba
> - a South American hardwood that has a hardness
> approximately twice that of hard maple. It doesn't
> show well in the picture, but it is very pretty wood
> and looks like a cross between rosewood and
> mahogany.
> 
> Terry Farrell
> 
> P.S. Operators are standing by for your order!   ;-)



		
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