Decapping bridges with a router

[David Love]

I was thinking more of removing the old bridge cap especially when keeping
the original board rather than planing the new one to the final height.
That way you are just taking it down to a uniform height.

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:20 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Decapping bridges with a router


> A couple of years ago I saw (or dreamt) a router adaptation to take the
> bridge cap off.  It consisted of a couple of elevated skids attached to
the
> router base that straddled the bridge so that you could basically run a
> router down the length of the bridge and take the bridge top down--very
> fast, very smooth.  Does anyone use that system and can send me a picture
of
> the skids and how they attached them?  I have some ideas myself but
> shortcuts are always welcome.  
> 
> David Love

The skid's easy. The hard part is the bridges that go from 
40mm at the low end, to 30mm or less at the high.
Ron N