Bob, the easiest way to make up the thickness IMHO, would be to simply add sufficient thickness maple (or any reasonable hardwood) to the backside of a 1-1/2" thick multilam block. However, some rebuilders, including me, have of late been topping our pinblocks with a layer of Delignit. The block pictured below is a multilam with about a 1/4" lamination of Delignit on top (plus a veneer of decorative hardwood - open-faced pinblock on this one). You could extend the Delignit and back harwood the full 59-1/2" and then fill in the 1/2" gap with a hunk of harwood epoxied in place. Or if you have more time that money, make your own block from scratch - it's not rocket science! Below is a block I made from quarter-sawn hard maple (much the same approach as the Bolduc block) and then capped with Delignit - I think the cap on this one is almost 1/2" thick (I think 1/4" is sufficient). Do you have no use for the left over block material? If you don't want the left over material, and perhaps don't have the tooling for cutting the Delignit, etc. I would be happy to talk to you about making one up for you - I can make it the full 59-1/2", any thickness, cap or not, whatever you want. Terry Farrell Farrell Piano www.farrellpiano.com terry at farrellpiano.com ----- Original Message ----- > Bolduc has an upright pinblock for 310.00 > (Pianotek)but I'm thinking of making one to save some > $. The block will need to be 2 1/4" by 9 1/4" by 59 > 1/2". I can get a multilam flat-sawn double panel > block from PianoTek for 151.00. That block will be 1 > 3/8 by 17" by 59". Not wide enough to cut the 17" > into two blocks to be glued together. But, I could > buy a single panel 1 3/8" or whatever thickness > delignit for 101.00 and glue them together at the > approp. thickness. > > Or, I could get a piece of 8/4 or 6/4 hard maple and > glue it to the back of the multilam. Still about $90 > - 100.00 for a kiln dried board. > I would have between 7 and 8" width left of the > multilam double panel - not enough for another block > upright or grand. > Any of these blocks I buy will be 1/2" short of the 59 > 1/2 but I can take care of that. > > Any better ideas? > > Bob Hull -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070205/8f2e4325/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 57254 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070205/8f2e4325/attachment-0002.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 47440 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070205/8f2e4325/attachment-0003.jpe
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