Is this in Houston? Avery At 07:01 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote: >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 > > > > > > > > > > > >Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? >Check out ><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM->new >cars at Yahoo! Autos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070503/d63ce8f8/attachment.html
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