Heavy action

[Terry Beckingham]

Charles and list,

There is an article and drawings of a jig for thinning grand hammer shanks
in the reprint book entitled "Hammers and Touch Weight. The article is from
the July 1988 PTJ.

Terry Beckingham
PTG Associate

At 08:29 AM 10/30/98 EST, you wrote:

> If people are doing this, I would very much like to know how.  What kind of
> tools, jigs, whatever are you using to get professional looking results.  If
> there is a journal article, a reference would be great.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Charles Farinella
> c_farinella@conknet.com >>
>
>
>I did it once on an older Steinway. The original shanks were much thinner than
>the new ones. I didn't do anything fancy, and perhaps the end results didn't
>look proffessional, but it did the job. I used a dremmel tool with the round
>hammer shaping drums, and sanded off the sides of the shanks. 
>
>Willem Blees
>
>