Bolduc hybrid pinblock

[Farrell]

Look no further Dale, Mark and others. Exactly what you are looking for is already available to all rebuilders - and more. There is this custom shop in Florida that will laminate any thickness Delignit cap you want onto any thickness Pianotek Multilam (or any other commercially available pinblock - also available is custom handmade quarter-sawn hard maple blocks with a Delignit cap).

Talk about custom, heck a couple months ago that custom shop even made up a block for a guy that had one of those old Kimballs with the elevated bass section - they put a thicker layer of Delignit in the bass only to make up the elevation difference. This shop will send you a rough capped block or custom duplicated - single or double. They even make up custom blocks with custom veneers for open-face pinblocks.

Here is a picture of a hand-made quarter-sawn hard-maple block with a thick Delignit cap.



Below is a picture of a standard multilam block with a thin Delignit cap.



Below is a standard multilam block with a Delignit cap and a custom thick hand-cut veneer of Brazilian Jatoba.



Go to: http://www.farrellpiano.com/belly.htm and take a look.

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
    I got the idea of adding Delgnit bridge cap material as a top covering on my pin blocks from Ron N & Yamaha blocks & luved it. So 2 or 4 months ago  I asked  Bob Marinelli at Piano tech to get Andre to make this new type block as a Bolduc alternative to the more expensive Bolduc blocks,which are beautiful but  not feasable for many econo type jobs. I didn't expect this so soon but here it is. Must have been in the works already.
    This isn't zzzzactly what I had in mind but it's along those lines.  Haven't used one yet.  I wish he had not put the thin layers in the middle of the block. 
      I have used several of the the Burkel blocks which looks similar & it has 3 ....10 mm laminations of flat sawn maple, capped with the rotary cut thin top cap pieces.  This is also a very nice feeling block & a double panel is $389.00. The new Bolduc block is approx $400.00
    That's all I know
    Dale

  Anyone seen the new Bolduc "hybrid" pinblock?

  > From the photo, looks similar in some ways to what Ron N. and  
  > others are
  trying to acheive, by laminating a top layer of Delignit (or similar)  
  onto
  standard pinblock stock.

  Mark Cramer,
  Brandon University
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