recycling not-so-old hammers

[Tom Sivak]

Dale
   
  Thanks for the reply.  Sure, it would be even better if the boring fit another piano, but what are the chances of that?  I would think that there are so many variables that it would be quite a coincidence if the hammers fit, intact, as is, on any other piano.  Even if the bass strings angle matched the hammer boring, what about the strike point?  (Or is the strike point/shank length more uniform from piano to piano than I imagine?)
   
  Tom Sivak
  Chicago

Erwinspiano at aol.com wrote:
          It's not hard. Cut them off & clean up the existring flat side to fit in the boring jig & bore away.  Been there done that. It works. Better off saving the intact assemblies  as is for a similarly bored piano.  Think of the labor savings.
    Dale
    So the question is: how hard would it be to rebore these for a different piano? If I cut off the old shanks (actually they're relatively new, too) flush, couldn't the hammers be re-bored and installed in a different piano?  

I don't see a reason why not, but then, there's so much I don't know.  What do you guys think?
   
  Tom Sivak
  Chicago
   

  
   

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