Beveled edge on bass bridge

[Jon Page]

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If you drill you new pin holes from a pattern of the old holes, might you 
be duplicating the
misplacement of the pins which might have caused the failure in the first 
place?

I think it is best to mark your pins holes with a line stretched between 
the hitch pin and agraffes.
On pianos where there is just a v-bar, make a pattern of the string 
placement before taking them off,
it will also help during their installation.

Regards,

Jon Page

At 06:00 PM 08/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Bevelers,
>
>Thanks much for helping me out with el problemo. I've ordered a spokeshave,
>and am excited to get a new tool!
>
>After looking in the reprint CD, and finding little for my specific bridge
>capping (bass bridge), I decided that I would do it the most straightforward
>way (to me anyway). I had made a tracing, but later decided instead to use
>the old cap as a template for drilling holes. Removed the old cap (radial
>arm saw), and had the hole placement and the angles already there. I did not
>find this procedure in the reprints, so I don't know if this was the "proper
>way" to do it. Made sense to me--is this the "right way"? I know that a
>paper tracing will work fine, and that it could be somewhat better because
>you can relocate the holes that were incorrectly drilled at the time of
>manufacture. However, on this piano (older Howard console), it seemed just
>as easy to do it by removing the top section of the old cap to use as a
>template.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>John Formsma
>Blue Mountain, MS
>
>mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com

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