v-bar/capo repair (filing compared)

[william ballard]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:
> Thanks to everyone, Mark & Joe, for the information you've passed  
> on to me.  With all the information and the practicing I've done, I  
> feel like I can go in and find out what the heck is happening with  
> this piano.

Here's an idea I remember from 12(?) years ago but never tried.  
Guitar frets flatten with wear, and need to be restored to a small  
radius profile. (Same thing with capo bars.) It seems as though is  
would take the guess work out of forming a profile by hand when he  
plate is still in the piano and you can only view the surface being  
work, with a mirror. Anybody have any experience with these? Quite  
likely guitar frets are much softer than plate iron, but Stewart- 
MacDonald has diamond fret dressers.

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_supplies/ 
Fretting_tools:_Fret_dressing,_polishing/Three-in-one_Fret_File.html

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
wbps at vermontel.net

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