I don't know the answer to hard and too hard, and I wonder too. Although ebony is a very heavy wood, so perhaps it would have some effect of additional mass in the treble. I haven't heard the ebony capped Sauter, only seen pictures of it. Will -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Terry Farrell Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 9:36 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bridges and caps [was YC Capo Bars] Will Truitt wrote: > Sauter is using horizontally laminated ebony in the top treble > section. To what effect? I have a whole pile of ebony veneers left over from other projects and have often wondered how they would work as a bridge cap. Or maybe even making a laminated hard maple cap with an ebony lamination as a topper. I guess I've thought that hard, harder and even harder is good for a bridge cap, but is there some point where the cap can get too hard? Terry Farrell PS: Thanks for the plug on the other thread!!! :-) On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:04 PM, William Truitt wrote: > Hi JD: > > The Delignit bridge capping material is straight from the Schaff > catalog. > It's densified beech, just like the pinblock material where the > densification comes from heat and pressure, but not as hard. Still > harder > than the maple though. I capped the whole bridge, bass and all of > the tenor > bridge. This was a cheap no name grand and a one time experiment. It > seemed to work fine, but it's just too butt ugly to want to use on a > good > grand. > > Sauter is using horizontally laminated ebony in the top treble > section. > > Will Truitt
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