[CAUT] install bridge pins?

[Mark Cramer]

Hey Jim,

 

A few years back I gave the idea of a power-notcher a fair amount of
thought, and I think there was a bench-mount woodworking tool that might
have made a fairly straight forward cross application. 

 

I believe it pivoted from a base, and had a router-type bit on the end, but
rotated on a vertical axis, unlike the one in Del's shop. 

 

Are you cutting your notches on the bench Jim?

 

Mark    

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Busby
Sent: April 20, 2009 8:42 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] install bridge pins?

 

Hi Mark,

 

This is how I've done it for three years now and I REALLY like it. The only
thing I might go back to is Dag. (Actually not Dag. I use black stove
polish.) No. Not for function. I just like the stark looks. (Sorry R.) I've
been doing laminated caps too. The caps are a real improvement. Got to get
me a Nossaman notcher though. It's hell on my chisels! You've got to keep
them razor sharp and have good technique or the notches look like beaver
gnawings.

 

Jim Busby

 

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Cramer
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:34 PM
To: CAUT
Subject: [CAUT] install bridge pins?

 

A few years ago I ran out of good reasons not to pin a new bridge-cap with
the same epoxy method (Mr. Bill's) we've been using to re-pin original caps
with for over a decade.

 

More recently, I've tried to add some of the heresy gleaned from this list
(you know who you are ;>) into my procedure, as follows: 

 

1.) Drilling the holes to extra depth.

 

2.) Installing rounded-pins to final height, rather than the traditional
filing method.

 

3.) Coating the surface with McLube rather than Dag (graphite).

 

Any other suggestions.? 

 

(No we don't have a handy source of Titanium bridge pins or a hydraulic
pin-press)

 

The bridges I've already done this way sound nice and clean, and render
well. but then they all do, for the first year anyhow. ;>)

 

Best regards,

Mark Cramer, RPT

Brandon University

 

 

 

 

 

     

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