Humidity increase ??? T --- Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote: > Hi folks > > After a restless night thinking about the prospect > of recapping I > remeasured my string offset angles today and > calculated out that I have > about 2.5 degrees in the high treble and just over 1 > degree in the > bass. Not quite as bad as I had thought after > all.... but still too > much. As it turns out I can get down to just over > 1.3 in the top and > close to 0 in the bass by taking a piece of 5 mm > thick hardwood (the > sticks they send with shanks from Renner as it turns > out) and form them > to match the contour of the plate just in front of > the hitch pins. > Fashioning a string rest with some thin felt brings > up the back length > to levels that I can easily live with. > > I am left thinking however that something ended up > different from when I > had the soundboard and bridge clamped and screwed > into place. I layed > out the bridge and got the height where I wanted it > at that point... and > proceeded to drill and notch the bridge on the work > bench before glueing > it to the soundboard. But when I glued the thing on > and the soundboard > into place the bridge surface was higher. How can > this have happened is > whats bothering me. > > Seems safer (tho perhaps more cumbersome) to glue > everything in place > first and then do the plane down the height, do the > layout, drill and > notch the bridge. How many of you folks do things > this way.. and if you > do it the way I did this one... what could have > caused the error ? > > Cheers > RicB > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
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