Bridge over troubled waters

[Erwinspiano@aol.com]

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     Hi Ron
     Making my own bridge pins is/would seem to be a costly & pointless waste 
of my time. I'd rather be fishing. As topperpiano said a black hole of 
endless rebuilders hours or some such. Totally
  I just got a supply of knickel plated pins from Pianotek & except for some 
who may choose to split hairs over the type of finish they prefer on their 
bridge pins, they are very nice looking. Its kind of like , Do Iike blue tuning 
pins or knickel ones. Its just a preference.
    Besides I've never had a client get upset at whether there new Yamaha had 
shiny silver pins as opposed to their previously owned grandmamerica special 
with the dingy blued ones.
   If I'm doing a bridge repin job, the function is the foremost 
consideration & looks second. I like both but  my first choice is a tight bridge pin first 
without having to use a slimy messy solution of whatever to size it. My 
second choice is the slimy solution. However I've yet to figure out how to keep the 
dust out of it. Know what I mean. Maybe it's just me. I might be epoxy 
impaired
   As to David L.s question. With a slightly larger pin it may be completely 
un-necessary to ream or drill for the next size up. In my experience if a 
bridge has cracking already then any thing more than a little bit tighter will 
simply cause the cracking to become worse. As I said once before, I feel sorry 
for myself when I have to get the thoroughly epoxied pins out of a stwy bridge 
so I can get the caps off. Oh & not thinking to kindly of the prior installer 
of said messy solutions & pins.
   Ron Nice photos & description. Thanks for sharing this

 End of rant
    Dale
Hi Dale,

>Although i don not do this job frequently occasionally I find it 
>advantageous to pull bridge pins in an existing bridge,renotch & 
>then put in new pins.

Likewise.

>  However as many of you may know from doing this that most recently 
>the current copper supply of bridge pins are just slightly smaller 
>than the most originals which obviously does not help with getting a 
>tight fit.

This can be a problem. We've made our own pins to the required size 
by getting silver steel centreless ground to the oversize diameter we 
require, then cutting the pins from the ground lengths of silver 
steel. But its a slow and costly process. Renner supplies bridge pins 
in several graduated diameters, but these pins do not have a very 
high standard of finish. We've been using them to date, but I'm 
looking for a better quality pin.

Ron O.

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