Not that many. Just one guy here. I keep two major jobs going at once - a major job is one where I have the piano in my shop. Right now I have the square grand (pin block plug, rescale, restring, refurbish action, new hammers, shim board, refinish, etc.) and the Knabe for a new keybed. Other pianos are waiting. While I have two going I may do a few odd things - action rebuild/refurbish, and the like. My next major job will be my first soundboard (yea!!!!), some redesigning, etc. I can hardly wait! It likely seems that I have many projects because I have so many questions. Many questions per project. Maybe someday it will be many projects per question. Or maybe I will be able to provide more answers that I do questions. Maybe. It is wonderful to have the resources of this list. I would still be doing the same projects, only I would be making many more mistakes and the final product would be......... well, let's just say below that which it is now. ;-) Big thanks to all that help me and others along. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <rbrekne@broadpark.no> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Keybed Inserts > Holy Christmas Farrell.. How many projects do you have going on at the same > time over there... grin... I can hardly keep up with reading about them all. > > :) > > Farrell wrote: > > > I am rebuilding a termite-damaged keybed on an old Knabe grand. Most of the > > keybed is softwood that was largely undamaged. The ends where the legs > > attach were maple and oak and were all chewed up. I am replacing the ends. > > The keybed has little round wooden inserts that the glide bolts of the > > action frame slide on. One of these inserts were in each end of the keybed > > and have been destroyed. > > > > What wood(s) are acceptable for keybed insert construction? > > What is the grain orientation? > > Do I really need the insert at all if the new keybed piece in that area is > > hard maple? I can even put a quarter-sawn piece of hard maple in that area > > if that grain orientation makes for a better surface. > > > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > > > Terry Farrell > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > >
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