Ribs, bent or convex ?

Richard Moody remoody@easnet.net
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 23:00:49 -0500


> You concave ribs the same way you convex them.  With a fixture mounted
on your
> table saw.  Just bend the rib the other way.
> 
> Del

So are ribs actually cut  be convex? Interesting this could be done on a
table saw.  Would it be a sixty foot diameter, or sixty foot radius jig? 

Ric O'Jig
 


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> From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Hallet & Davis  bridge agraffes  back
> Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 7:58 AM
> 
> Yes, it probably would/did? make manufacturing more difficult, but that
doesn't
> seem to have been an issue.
> 
> You concave ribs the same way you convex them.  With a fixture mounted
on your
> table saw.  Just bend the rib the other way.
> 
> Del
> 


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