This morning I was lying in bed dreaming of different ways to do stuff, and it occured to me that if you had a radial drill press on a movable carriage on the floor ( or a normal one, levitating, like Terry's ) and tilted the PIANO, all the holes would be drilled at the same angle, with no chance of deviation, as long as the floor or tracks were straight and level. On the other hand, if you slide the drill press across on a plank, you have to keep the arm of it perpendicular to the stretcher, or in line with the strings, to achieve uniformity. Does it matter if pins are angled in reference to the stretcher, or should they all be canted away in a line directly in line with the strings? What is usually done? ( I've never paid any attention to this. ) If you wnated the pins canted away from the strings, directly, you'd have to drawa bunch of lines on the pin block, or have a "guide arm" or something. If you wanted them tilted relative to the stretcher, you could draw a bunch of perpendeicular lines on your plank, across the piano, and keep the drill press base lined up with these ( and its arm. ) But tilting the piano would make this accuyracy automatic What think ye? THump __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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