v-bar/capo repair (filing compared)

[Michael Spalding]

Bill,

Someone,  I think it was Paul Revenko-Jones, showed a Stew-Mac diamond fret file in a convention classs.  It had been modified by brazing on a handle which would allow you to work from above the plate without removing it from the piano.  You would have to remove the strings.  Clever idea, which I've not followed up on, so no experience to report.

Mike 


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From: william ballard 
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Sent: 3/24/2006 8:34:05 AM 
Subject: Re: v-bar/capo repair (filing compared)




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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