was: help with Jaras Jig

[Gene Nelson]

Thanks for the photos and explaination.
Supporting the keys in three places sounds like it gives the needed 
additional margin of advantage as there is nothing symetrical about any of 
this that I can find.
Lo tech rules.
Gene
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: was: help with Jaras Jig


>
>> Many thanks for the replies.
>
> Hi Gene,
> I meant to get back to you on this one and wandered off behind
> the little animals and forgot. I did a set of top plates and
> long buttons on a D a couple of years ago, and had similar
> concerns. I propped the front of the keys up with a stick,
> just thick enough so they were barely resting on the balance
> rail punchings, so the keys were supported front, center, and
> back. I then bent the center rail pin as necessary to center
> it on the key in the top of the mortise before putting on the
> top plates and repeated the process for the buttons. The
> results centered the button mortises nicely. The high res
> photos are clearer, but these should be decipherable.
>
> Low tech, but it worked pretty well for me.
>
> Ron N
>