Larry - A follow-up thought - Al may be right about not needing clamping, but I may be a little less confident without some type of holding. Your picture amply illustrates the issues of wire condition (looking pretty twisted) and various felt profiles, which can have a significant effect on how check functions with a particular tail shape. David Skolnik Hasitngs on Hudson, NY At 12:25 AM 9/12/2012, you wrote: >Iâm including an image of the original back >check. As you can see, the back check head >quite large. New ones (three different types >shown) have a totally different physical >dimension to the point that itâs beginning to >look like it would be faster to simply recover the existing back check heads. > >If I were to go that route ........... and >aside from getting the grain of the leather in >the right direction ............ is it >critical to get the leather at a consistent >tightness to get some reasonable checking effect?? > >A procedure involving a clothes pin has been suggested. Comments?? > >P9111268a > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120912/4631833b/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: f8f31c1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 90161 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120912/4631833b/attachment-0001.jpg>
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