Stringing jig

[Richard Morgan]

Michelle,
Call Mike White at Plum Pianos and see if he has some waste pinblock material of the right size, and ask him to drill the holes.  With Paul's instructions, sounds like you could make a killer jig!  The next time I go through there, I think I'll ask him (or probably Markus, who is more likely to be there!) for some spare pinblock.

Richard



----- Original Message ----
From: PAULREVENKOJONES <paulrevenkojones at aol.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:58:46 PM
Subject: Re: Stringing jig


Michelle:
 
Here at the school I made 6 jigs in about an hour for our students from pieces of pinblock material, 8" x 24" with a tuning pin toward one end as the hitch (anything else would pull out and it just means that you have to make your single-loop bigger to adapt, not a bad attitude to have), and two pins offset toward the front. In between, I created a large half-round from a 1 1/2" dowel for a bearing surface at the front, and a smaller half-round from a 3/4" dowel as a rear bearing surface. There are no agraffes, but it's plenty like a stringing reality to get the job done; splicing in the non-speaking length is just as tricky. The jigs are clamped flat to mimic grands, and double-clamped vertically to mimic uprights so that students get to figure out the differences between wirebend strategies for the two. If you want a picture let me know.
 
Paul
 
 
 
 
 
 
"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune cookie)
 
 
In a message dated 05/02/07 18:19:39 Central Daylight Time, michelle at smithpianoservice.com writes:
Hi all.  Does anyone have a stringing jig they would like to sell for not-too-much money?  I need to start thinking about the PTG technical exam.
 
Thanks!
 
Michelle Smith
Smith Piano Service
Bastrop, Texas
(512) 466-0238
michelle at smithpianoservice.com

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