Baldwin Gauge?

[Avery Todd]

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Another use I discovered for it was to install a new set of knuckles 
using it basically
the same as for hammers. Mainly to just make sure the wood core is 
straight up and down
coming out of the hammer shank. Worked great.

Avery

At 01:11 AM 7/4/05, you wrote:
>It does both but, if memory serves, it was introduced at a class on 
>hammer hanging.
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>Del
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>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] 
>On Behalf Of David Skolnik
>Sent: July 03, 2005 10:53 PM
>To: Pianotech
>Subject: RE: Baldwin Gauge?
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>Gentles -
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>All due respect, take another look at the photo.  In fact, this one 
>is not the one they made to check shank to molding 
>dimension.  Rather this was designed to check the  molding / string 
>angle with the hammer pulled up to contact string.  The folded-over 
>part of the shorter length would sit on top of the string (Baldwin 
>name would be upside down), and the longer length would be brought 
>adjacent to the side of the subject hammer (which would have 
>previously had a line drawn bisecting the molding).  The gauge would 
>indicate whether the hammer is striking at 90 degrees or not.
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>Del - you must be too busy unpacking.  What an unenviable task!
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>Best to all.  Remember to use your ear plugs if you end up at the fireworks!
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>David Skolnik
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>At 09:21 PM 7/3/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>>It is a convention give-away tool used to determine whether or not 
>>a hammerhead is square to the hammershank. Simply lay the short, 
>>bent over part on top of the hammershank, move it so that the long, 
>>narrow part runs along the hammerhead molding and see that the 
>>hammerhead is square to the shank.
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>>When replacing hammers it is used to draw a line along the 
>>centerline of the original hammerhead molding on the sample 
>>hammerheads (those left in place to align the new hammerheads to). 
>>This can be quite helpful if the original hammerheads have been 
>>badly mis-shaped over the years.
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>>Del
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>>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [ mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] 
>>On Behalf Of Jack Houweling
>>Sent: July 03, 2005 9:04 PM
>>To: pianotech
>>Subject: Baldwin Gauge?
>>Hello,
>>I found this in one of my tool boxes and would like to know what it 
>>is? It is aluminum, has Baldwin written on it and is about three 
>>inches long.  Looks like some sort of gauge but I'm not sure.
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>>Thanks,
>>Jack Houweling
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