material for go-bars

[Mark Story]

Guy,

What kind of wood did you find worked best?  I'm having problems with
resiliancy and breakage.  I quit doing new boards for a while, but we are
the only shop for over 300 mi. around that does them.  I am going back to
doing them, but I would really like to improve the go-bar situation.  I
checked out the available pipe, but I have doubts about the stiffness
durability.  The price is certainly right.

Mark Story, RPT
Eastern Washington University
MS100 Cheney, WA 99004
509-359-7017
mark.story@mail.ewu.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols <nicho@roadrunner.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: PVC pipe for go-bars


> At 05:00 PM 6/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Guy, you do not say why it was a pain.  Did they break?  Hold a curved
> >shape?
> >LANCE LAFARGUE, RPT
>
> Yup. No... uh .... long-term resiliency. Plus, we're real dry out here,
and
> that may have had something to do with it. And... it was just... a pain,
> you know, to get 'em to stay put... compared to wood. We clamped bridges,
> ribs,  lid veneer, just about anything that needed to be clamped. We've
> used vacuum, pneumatic, offset klemsia (sp), you name it. The pvc
> experiments were in conjuction with some bent lamination jobs we were
> doing, and it was just... a pain. Spoiled, I guess. At the time, one of
the
> reasons was we had finished-up a new section of the shop, and the stinkin'
> cieling height had changed. Go figure. Maybe we were just lazy.
>
> Guy
>