Hi André, You must be feeling good that that the world is finally rediscovering old world hammer felts by Filzfabrik Wurzen. You've been ringing the Wurzen bell for some time now. It's all very exciting! An important component of the Wurzen felts, or any old style hammer felt, is the cold pressing. In the New World, Ronsen has been a Rock of Gibraltar in providing the cold pressed option since I first discovered them in the '80s. I know that at least one big European hammer maker, namely Abel, is now providing cold pressed hammers as a stock item - with their Natural Felt. This is a new trend... is Renner cold pressing for you? (My apologies if this subject has already been covered in past posts...) Best, David Stanwood >Hi Dale and list, > >I just installed my first Weickert special in a C3. >Jurgen Goering was here too (we had a lot of >fun, but he is now back in Vancouver) and we > were both (along with a befriended >colleague) smashed with the result. >The high treble had definitely more 'ping' and >the hammers in the middle section required >hardly any voicing, so all in all the voicing >took maybe 30 minutes. > >As I described before : >A regulation and a tuning. >a little colodion in the last 5 treble hammers. >Getting rid of the cups. >String leveling and some hammer/string mating. >20 to 30 stitches in the middle section. >Evening out the transition from bass to lower treble. >Needling up the first 10 bass hammers. > >That was it. Just amazing..... >I am waiting for the next hammer sets but they >(Renner Germany) don't have the felt. #$%&*$@?! > > >friendly greetings >from >André Oorebeek
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