Lowe's also carries various sizes of iron-on veneer edgings. I've used it for broken key repair and also for shimming the unacorda shift guide block. I wondered if it would also work for the problem mentioned in this thread. I've got a 7 year old Steinway B in a teaching studio which has a front rail gap in the bass end and is causing an irritating knock in the lowest couple of octaves. The gap is larger than could be corrected by sanding, and is a problem I hadn't noticed before the last tuning or so. The studio is continuously busy with two instructors sharing the studio, so I haven't had a chance to get in there to check balance rail bedding to see if the problem is there first. I was going to wait until I had the chance to do so before bringing the question up to the list, but while the subject is hot, why not? Jeff > > Hi Jon, > Don't you just love refixing, butcher jobs. The easiest >fix is to get some 1/4" width iron on birch edging material. Good >cabinet suppy companies stock it. Iron and Press it on real firm , so you >see some squeeze out.Just apply on the bad section. Then roughly bed the >front rail. Now use a full length, so there is no seam. This will give >you a low friction lip for fast pedal operation. > Bed front rail, then recheck the back rail, finally set the balance rail >gluide bolts. > > PS Saw kerfing will not work so well with this type of problem > > Hope this helps. > Roger Jeff Tanner Piano Technician School of Music University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803)-777-4392 (phone)
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