Filing hammers

[Stéphane Collin]

Hi Ric.

Thanks for your answer.  I do use the stuff André sells, and I like it also. 
But how do you manage, with sanding paper the width of a single hammer, to 
get absolutely horizontal crowns ?  That is good with the gang filing : I DO 
have 13 hammers that are horizontal enoug to need very little, if any, 
string mating correction, on a gang of 15.  Don't you have to correct every 
single hammer with the one hammer width strip job ?

Best regards.

Stéphane Collin.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek at broadpark.no>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 7:06 PM
Subject: Filing hammers


File with a strip of sanding paper the width of a single hammer, and
count your pulls so that you can keep consistant for each hammer.  Use
3M's polishing and finishing grits... the stuff that Andre sells.... you
will love it.  Just the right hardness on the backing.  Lasts forever
and works dynamite.

Cheers
RicB