I'll have to read that and see how come you are more successful with this than I have been.... which is mostly not at all. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 12:57 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bum set of NY hammers, I'm afraid On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: what have y'all done to hammers when you think the initial "juicing" was less than perfect? I'm hoping there is still hope for these hammers. Remove and reinstall the original h/s/f's (that I smartly kept in a box); and juice the heck out of them, and then "start over"? Is there a clean slate? Once again, you can soak out the existing lacquer (most of it): see my June, 2009 PTJ article (I can send you a pdf if you can't find it). Then start over. And it is possible to use the same tray method to apply lacquer - it will be certain to penetrate to the core. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Brecht = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110212/72a5d787/attachment.htm>
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