Decapping the bridge

[Will Truitt]

To answer my own question about plugging holes, one more supplier for fill
dowels is Pianotek.  They sell a box of thin rounded dowels several inches
long that are somewhere in the .080's in diameter (I think, I am at home and
the box is in my shop at the Mill building).  I bought them a few months ago
after I noticed them in the catalog.  This last piano I used them on.
Drilled out the top treble sections in the root because they were too big
there before inserting them after dipping in glue; they fit just about right
in the tenor section, and used shoe pegs in the bass because the holes were
too big for them.  Where usable, I preferred them over the shoe pegs because
they filled the holes completely to depth, and seem to be made of a harder
wood than the shoe peg material.  

 

They are in the catalog.  I can measure the diameter today and find the page
in the catalog.

 

Will Truitt

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Spreeman
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:24 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: RE: Decapping the bridge

 

> I haven't a clue where else they can be gotten.
> Ron N
 
>From a cobbler.



                Michael Spreeman 
http://www.spreemanpianoinnovations.com
<http://www.spreemanpianoinnovations.com/> 





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