Ric If the only solution is to recap the bridge with the plate still in, instead of doing 5 notes at a time, wouldn't it be much easier, and get the bridge to be more even, if you removed all the strings in an section, shave down the bridge, etc, and restring just that section? Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 1:08 pm Subject: [CAUT] Downbearing Error Hi Greg? ? You do hit the proverbial nail squarely :) Fortunately I wont have to recap more then the top 30 notes as the rest is uncapped solid hardrock maple. That is to say unless someone has a good reason why plugging and re-drilling bridge pin holes is a bad idea in itself. Still... its a lot of extra work.... but it will be one way or the other I guess.? ? My thought about taking them down 5 unisons at a time was simply that I could individually fit each unisons deflection to the bridge, and I wouldnt have to let the whole tension down at the same time. Then too... I kinda figured it wouldnt take me long to see if I could get this to work or if I will just have to bite the bullet as Jon says and just do it over.? ? You are right tho... big time. Regret sucks... and more of it will suck even more.... all this kinda reminds me of a VW engine I rebuilt once..... it was PERFECT... except the guy what sold me on a custom oil cooler neglected to tell me the damned thing needed to be machined to fit where the stock one went. GOD I was a proud 17 year old... for 5000 miles :) ? Cheers? RicB? ? ? Ric,? ? I think the question you have to ask yourself is if you would feel? ? regret later after not having recapped. Regret sucks! I'm not sure? ? how you? ? would shave down evenly at the rate of 5 unisons at a time anyway.? ? Did you maybe over compensate for board deflection in designing the? ? dimension of the bridge?? ? ? Best,? ? Greg? ? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071119/9766d2bb/attachment.html
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