Increasing Crown

[gordon stelter]

Hi Ron,
     That sounds to me like a rather emphatic and
authoritative comment. Seems to me that several people
on this list HAVE reported positive results in the use
of various re-crowning techniques. But, then, they're
not in the 
( Heh-heh! )
     Thump


--- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> William R. Monroe wrote:
> > List,
> > 
> > I am currently working on rebuilding my own little
> piano to gain some
> > experience, and have a question about improving
> the crown, function of the
> > soundboard.  I had heard of shimming up the SB
> from underneath, prior to
> > shimming, or doing anything else on top (Bridge
> repairs, etc.), in hope that
> > by doing these repairs while the board was shimmed
> up, they might act to
> > improve the crown, even a very little bit.
> > 
> > My question is about flowing epoxy over the
> surface of the board, as was
> > discussed here a while back, and I'm wondering
> what you all think about
> > having the board wedged up & flowing on epoxy.  My
> concern is about what may
> > happen when the wedges are removed - cracked
> epoxy?!?!?
> > 
> > What say you?
> > 
> > William R. Monroe
> 
> Nothing you do will restore the crown. Epoxy will
> make the assembly 
> stiffer, and may improve function. If the board is
> scraped and 
> sanded well so some epoxy will soak into it, and the
> epoxy isn't 
> piled on knee deep, I wouldn't worry about cracking.
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