hammer shank clamp

[Terry Neely]

Might make a good Journal article
                                    Terry Neely

Carl Meyer wrote:

> Here's the shank clamp.  The 1 inch PVC pipe is shown holding the shanks in
> the strike position.  The felt and coarse emery cloth is put on the aluminum
> extrusions with double backed tape.  The extrusions are from a wulitzer
> player piano solenoid rail and are bent slightly to give better pressure on
> the shanks.  You can sand hammers w/o clamping but since the shanks flex,
> the action of the short stroke carving knife is minimized.
>
> Thanks
>
> Carl Meyer   cmpiano@home.com
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                            Name: hammershankclamp.jpg
>    hammershankclamp.jpg    Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg)
>                        Encoding: base64