New grand piano lid

[Farrell]

David Hughes, in Baltimore Maryland, makes new lids for Steinways. David runs a top-notch business. He makes his lids out of MDF cores, puts on hardwood edges and hardwood inserts where hinges go, and veneers both sides.

If you are trying to cut down on costs, I would consider using a high grade hardwood plywood, and simply epoxy in maple pinblock plugs where the hinge screws will go. Get it veneered in birch or some other close-grained hardwood and you won't even have to do much grain filling. You mention that you are going to spray the lid - a solid color? If so, you can rout your edges to the desired shape and paint with thin epoxy until all edge pores are closed up. Sand, and you will have a nice solid edge to paint.

If you are going to finish natural................give David Hughes a call. That will really add to the specialty aspect of the project!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Lindholm" <mailinglists@home.se>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:14 PM
Subject: New grand piano lid


> Hi, sorry for that previous test-mail. I cant understand why i cant send mails to this list using outlook (have to use the webmail-interface).
> 
> Anyhow... heres what I've been trying to send for days
> 
> *snip*
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've been wondering what I should use to make a new lid for my grand. Its 230cm long, so I guess MDF would'nt be the best choice. The best solution
> would be if there were some kind of wood-platters that I can screw right into and wich would be strong enough to hold it securly to the hinges.
> 
> Another thing that would be nice is if there were some material with tight fibres so I could take a router to make the edges without having to glue
> some routed hardwood around the edge. Its going to be sprayed so if that would make it unnecessary to veneer the lid, that would be superb.
> 
> The old lid is totally wrecked :(
> 
> It would really help me if you, when replying to this message also CC'ed it to this adress (malinglists@home.se) since I can't access my mail that often (and I'm really behind reading this list by about 5000 messages).
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel Lindholm / Sweden
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