[pianotech] Voicing needle canister

[tnrwim at aol.com]

I bought the canister in which pencil leads are kept. It's got a snap top, and is clear palstic, so you can see how many needles you've got. It holds about 50 needles. 

Wim



 



-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: Pianotech <Pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 5:15 am
Subject: [pianotech] Voicing needle canister



Out in the shop yesterday, I was sorting through various envelopes of 
oicing needles and decided it would be a fine thing to have a sturdy 
an of some sort to keep them in. There exist a number of small nifty 
ood canisters that are fine storage containers for just such, but they 
end not to age gracefully and the lids aren't dependable. There are 
ice little plastic or glass containers too, that would be ideal. But I 
idn't have any of these. So I went to the drawer where I keep brass 
ubing and found what I needed to make one. Back at the beginning of 
ime, I had made a case like this for pinning drill, file, reamer, and 
roach, that has proven to be fairly indestructible, so it ought to work 
or voicing needles too.
The tubing is K&S Engineering, from just about any hobby shop or 
ardware store in the country. The ends are plugged with lead free 
older. It didn't take long to make, even with my uncharacteristically 
uffing it to a shine of sorts, and can be made as big or small as the 
ubing selection allows. I always found it much more therapeutic to make 
omething rather than buying it, and this is fairly cheap therapy.
Kent Swafford posted a through the strings voicing tool the other day 
ade of rectangular tubing from the same source. Also available is brass 
heeting and music wire in 3' lengths in diameters to 1/4" or more, 
seful in making special use tools of various sorts. One of the many 
ften overlooked resources out there.
Ron N


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