That's really gorgeous work, Terry! As I was tuning my open-faced Everett this weekend I marvelled at how many open faced blocks are smoother, more uniform, and still tighter than their contemporaneous covered brethren. Why? Betterwood? Better woodworking? Seasoning ? The fact they were varnished ??? I wondered if the fact that covered blocks became the fashion encouraged manufacturers to think that they could get away with making them more cheaply ? Can you state specifically what made these great old blocks tick? Thump --- Terry <terry@farrellpiano.com> wrote: > FWIW, my latest creation: > > > > I am in the process of remanufacturing a Knabe 6' 4" > grand. It has an open pinblock configuration. I've > made a few of my own quarter-sawn hard-maple > pinblocks, but Ron Nossaman (thank you) turned me on > to the idea of using a relatively inexpensive > Pianotek multi-lam hard maple pinblock (rotary sawn) > and capping it with Delignit. One can either use > Delignit pinblock material or their bridge-capping > material (thinner laminations). I have capped this > multi-lam pinblock with a 5 mm cap of Delignit > bridge-capping material (laminations 2 through 6). > The top lamination (1 mm max) is a veneer of Jatoba > - a South American hardwood that has a hardness > approximately twice that of hard maple. It doesn't > show well in the picture, but it is very pretty wood > and looks like a cross between rosewood and > mahogany. > > Terry Farrell > > P.S. Operators are standing by for your order! ;-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
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