Ron, You are Der Schlickmeister! Looks pretty good. Wim, I think your suggestion fits my laziness better. Especially since I have one of those plastic pencil lead tubes in a drawer. -- John Formsma, RPT Blue Mountain, MS On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote: > 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 > voicing needles and decided it would be a fine thing to have a sturdy > can of some sort to keep them in. There exist a number of small nifty > wood canisters that are fine storage containers for just such, but they > tend not to age gracefully and the lids aren't dependable. There are > nice little plastic or glass containers too, that would be ideal. But I > didn't have any of these. So I went to the drawer where I keep brass > tubing and found what I needed to make one. Back at the beginning of > time, I had made a case like this for pinning drill, file, reamer, and > broach, that has proven to be fairly indestructible, so it ought to work > for voicing needles too. > > The tubing is K&S Engineering, from just about any hobby shop or > hardware store in the country. The ends are plugged with lead free > solder. It didn't take long to make, even with my uncharacteristically > buffing it to a shine of sorts, and can be made as big or small as the > tubing selection allows. I always found it much more therapeutic to make > something rather than buying it, and this is fairly cheap therapy. > > Kent Swafford posted a through the strings voicing tool the other day > made of rectangular tubing from the same source. Also available is brass > sheeting and music wire in 3' lengths in diameters to 1/4" or more, > useful in making special use tools of various sorts. One of the many > often overlooked resources out there. > > Ron N > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120218/317d2ea5/attachment.htm>
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