shimmed tuning pins

[Tvak@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/17/02 10:04:33 AM, jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes:

<< To stop the sandpaper from going into the hole, as I tap in the pin. I 
leave

1/2" above the hole, and cut it in 1/8" strips to the edge of the hole, and

fold it out >>

I also left about a 1/2" out of the hole, but didn't cut it into strips.  It 
was severed by the pin as it was pounded into the hole and came off quite 
easily.  Why would cutting it into strips stop it from going into the hole?

Tom Sivak