"shaping" or "reshaping" hammers!

[pianolover 88]

<Call it what you like - when I find a set of flat-topped, worn, bulgy 
Renner
hammers, I &quot;reshape&quot; them, as in returning them to their original 
shape. I
guess I don't understand why that would make you grumpy.  Bob Davis>


Here here! good point. Far as i see it, a hammer already has a "surface". 
Seems to me that most grooved, flattened, worn hammers indeed NEED 
"reshaping"; providing there's enough felt left to yield an adequate result.

Terry Peterson


----Original Message Follows----
From: BobDavis88@aol.com
Reply-To: Pianotech &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: &quot;shaping&quot; or &quot;reshaping&quot; hammers!
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:54:33 EDT

In a message dated 8/22/2004 4:38:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
joegarrett@earthlink.net writes:
What the heck will it take to get y'all to quit using the above terms in
re

gards to SURFACING HAMMERS????!!!!!!!!!
Call it what you like - when I find a set of flat-topped, worn, bulgy Renner
hammers, I &quot;reshape&quot; them, as in returning them to their original 
shape. I
guess I don't understand why that would make you grumpy.

Bob Davis

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