>Hi Chuck, I doubt you'll hear from many "Steinway Specialists", but a number of us "Generic Trench Troops" have seen this. It wasn't intentional, it's a random casting cooling event. Some are pretty flat, some aren't. You'll get plates that twist and curve in all sorts of directions. The block will conform to the plate if it's just screwed to it, but If you expect to have the block end up flush with the underside of the stretcher, you'll have to taper it like the factory did. This is a good excuse to look at power hand planers, if you haven't already. Ron N< Ron - Thanks for the info. I'm glad it's not "one of a kind" anyway. I do have a DeWalt hand planer, but it's probably too underpowered for this job. Good reason to go to Lowes for that Bosch planer I was looking at just the other day! Dang! Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090915/c1d3ec7c/attachment.htm>
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