Tips, tricks and tools

[Farrell]

I bought a single needle voicing tool from one of the supply companies. It is made with 5/32 brass rod and has an itty-bitty-teeny-weeny set screw to hold in the needle. The allen wrench is integral to the rubber cap to cover the needle when stored. Fits very easily between strings. It works quite well.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@pop.vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: Tips, tricks and tools


> At 11:50 PM -0700 10/2/02, Joseph Garrett wrote:
> >This voicing tool made out of brass rod, what happens when the needle
> >breaks!? How are you going to replace it, if it's soldered in?
> >Seems to me that a set screw would be a better way to go. Easy to do. <G>
> 
> Ask a set screw to hold the needle(s) in and immediately you need 
> something the diameter of the Hart voicing tool.  A fine tool but 
> with that fat a shank a little limiting in some through-the-string 
> work you might want to do. I've got two needles set in the end of 
> 5/32" braising rod, which I've made into the 12' handle for a rubber 
> mute.
> 
> It's meant for light crown work, not deep shoulder needling, and if 
> you break off a needle doing 2mm stitching, something is seriously 
> wrong.
> 
> Check the PTJ CD-ROM for "Calligraphy Tool".
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> 
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