David: I've shown this tool in several classes over the years, but it is the flat plate shaping tool available from any good guitar supply house with a radiussed fret file welded on the other end so that I can work from the top side of the piano as well. I'm not at the shop tonight, but if you want a picture, let me know, and I'll try to do something in the next day or two. Paul In a message dated 12/31/2008 6:52:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: I was looking at these on the web and I’m not sure that they are the correct radius. It did give me some ideas though. Time for someone to design a tool—or find one. Where’s Jurgen… David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Sowers Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:21 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Capo shaping I was in a class by Steve Brady a while back where he recommended a guitar fret file. You could contact him and find out where he purchased it. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:34 AM, David Love <_davidlovepianos at comcast.net_ (mailto:davidlovepianos at comcast.net) > wrote: My back hurts. Has anyone got a good method/set up for viewing the capo for reshaping without flipping the plate. David Love _www.davidlovepianos.com_ (http://www.davidlovepianos.com/) -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA _www.pianova.net_ (http://www.pianova.net/) **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081231/558ff499/attachment.html>
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