<div>Ric</div> <div> </div> <div>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? <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br> Piano Tuner/Technician<br> Honolulu, HI<br> Author of <br> The Business of Piano Tuning<br> available from Potter Press<br> www.pianotuning.com</div> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Richard Brekne <ricb@pianostemmer.no><br> To: caut@ptg.org<br> Sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 1:08 pm<br> Subject: [CAUT] Downbearing Error<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_0_fcdd68dd-5a87-4f9a-8e66-693ce75bf50e style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">Hi Greg <br>  <br> 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. <br>  <br> 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. <br>  <br> 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 :)  <br> Cheers <br> RicB <br>  <br>   Ric, <br>   I think the question you have to ask yourself is if you would feel <br>   regret later after not having recapped. Regret sucks! I'm not sure <br>   how you <br>   would shave down evenly at the rate of 5 unisons at a time anyway. <br>   Did you maybe over compensate for board deflection in designing the <br>   dimension of the bridge? <br>  <br>   Best, <br>   Greg <br>  <br> </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/index.htm?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000970" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>!<br/> </div>