[CAUT] Power notcher

[Ted Sambell]

Hi Tom,

I know of a bridge notcher which came from from the defunct Sherlock Manning factory. It's in a huge warehouse room about fifty miles from me along with an enormous amount of other stuff; backs in various stages of constuction, cabinet parts, but no actions or keys , so most of it is useless, but the warehouse people will not sell anything seperately. The notcher was specially made, and the work on the backs' bridges there looked very good. It works like a radial arm saw, the cutter drawn along an arm by the operator, and I think it could be adapted for a high production rebuilding shop. The niftiest notcher I have seen was in the Schimmel factory. It is robotic and fully automatic. The bridge pin hole drilling and bridge pin insertion are also automatic. Naturally, the whole process has to be programmed for specific models. I imagine other modern piano companies use similar technologies.

Ted Sambell
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  Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:58 AM
  Subject: [CAUT] Power notcher


  Hi, Del -

  I have seen power notchers at work in a factory or two (Baldwin, some years back?).  Are these machines available for sale somewhere, or are they custom adaptations of something else?

  Thanks!

  In a message dated 6/13/2007 9:43:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, fandrich at pianobuilders.com writes:
    I have used it. I like the acoustical results but I don't like working with the
    stuff. As Ron points out it's brutal to notch by hand (no matter how sharp the
    chisel is). I wouldn't use it at all if I didn't have a power notcher. 



  ~ Tom McNeil ~
  Vermont Piano Restorations
  VermontPiano.com

  346 Camp Street
  Barre, VT 05641
  (802) 476-7072





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