Wally Brooks saves the day!

[Jon Page]

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Removing material from the wippen heel is not going to make a significant 
change in touchweight.
The effect of Key Ratio reduces that weight at the front of the key, so if 
you remove 1g the resultant
weight reduction is 0.5g.  KR is approx. 2:1, but Strike Weight Ratio is 
approx.5:1, so removing 1g
hammer weight lowers DW by 5g. And more significant is replacing the 
knuckle further out on the shank.

I've found that wippen material removal is not worth the effort.

Been there, done that,

Jon Page

PS  Wally does come through with speedy service.


At 05:55 AM 09/13/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>Perhaps some of you saw my photos of the wierd action parts from a JC 
>Fischer grand that I had to replace with modern ones.  The object was to 
>make the action feel _lighter_ and the original wips were 5 grams lighter 
>than the replacements. (and narrower too)
>
>At Arlington, in the rebuilding workshop, someone suggested I take 
>material out of the wippen heels.  In doing so, my homemade jig didn't 
>work too well on the first half dozen or so and they split open at the 
>place where the dowel is inserted at top.  I called Wally in a panic and 
>he said he didn't know if he had any "loose" ones, but would look.  Three 
>days later, there they were in my mailbox.  Now THAT's SERVICE!
>
>Diane
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