Rebushing centers method

[Farrell]

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tear bushing cloth?????????????????

We used to live in caves and club our dinner to death daily. I mean it 
worked. We ate.

But then people discovered better ways to drum up some chow.

Seriously though, I have done a fair bit of re-bushing action centers over 
my few years in this business. During my first year I went to the Annual PTG 
convention and took a class from Joel Rappaport (I think) on action centers. 
He (or whomever it was that was actually teaching the class - I think it was 
him - sorry if I'm wrong) recommended using Renner pre-cut and pre-glued 
action cloth. It is all I have ever used. I have never had a problem with 
it. I always gives my perfect predictable consistent action centers. I 
highly recommend it.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> I was having a discussion with a friend about rebushing centers.  We were 
> wondering about a more scientific approach to choosing the thickness of 
> the cloth and cutting or tearing it to the correct width--my approach, if 
> it even qualifies as one, is rather haphazard and it seems to take me 
> forever to find the right combination.  It could be that I'm just a klutz.
>
> Has anyone really proven that tearing the cloth is better than cutting it? 
> Renner and Steinway sell the cloth already cut, with glue or whatever it 
> is on one side--is using it a compromise?  (No, we don't have to get into 
> a discussion of Steinway bushing cloth here.)
>
> Why is it that in the (long) past, I didn't seem to have an issue with 
> this (maybe that crummy cloth we used was easy to work with?)?  No, you 
> don't have to answer this one.
>
> We've looked through the archives, never quite getting the information 
> we've wanted.  The information from Renner is good, but doesn't really 
> apply to our questions.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT