For my own amusement, I made a ball-end tuning lever handle from left-over rosewood that I had from building a marimba for my daughter. It is now my tool of choice. Still, I have to say that I do not find it problematic to use my older tools when circumstances require it. Once you learn to ride a bike, you can easily adapt to other bikes. You use what is in hand to do the job. I have made many other tool handles from the same resource. I like to sand flats on the handles, when appropriate, to provide tactile indication of the tools orientation without visual confirmation. Frank Emerson pianoguru at earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Porritt, David To: Pianotech List Sent: 1/17/2007 11:21:03 AM Subject: RE: Tuning Lever for a Beginner My hands are at the age where that’s all I can use! dp David M. Porritt dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:00 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: Tuning Lever for a Beginner How many other ball-end lever lovers are there? Alan E. -----Original Message----- After a number of years with a nylon handled non-extension Scaff lever, and another number of years with a lovely laminated handle Hale extension lever, I made a ball end lever with a 1.25" track ball purchased at a garage sale for $0.50, and a 9" length of 7/16" stainless steel rod I had salvaged from some long forgotten carcass, for possible future use. Ron N size=2 width="100%" align=center> Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070118/1ca2202b/attachment.html
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