Thanks for the article, JD. That's a great tip about rubbing the side of the flange on wax. I'll try to remember it next time I'm rebushing. I was taught to insert the pin, wait for the glue to dry, remove the pin, then trim flush. I'll try your way next time. More than one way to skin a cat, no doubt. Though I'd much rather be rebushing than skinning. :-) -- JF On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM, John Delacour <JD at pianomaker.co.uk> wrote: > > The recent discussion of centres etc. has raised some interesting points > and there are may other relevant points that have not been mentioned. > > The piano that is the subject of my article on Grand Hammer Rebushing is > 140 years old. I am having to rebush the hammers because someone else has > re-centred them at some point. I don't expect hammer centres to remain > trouble-free for 140 years but it's not unreasonable to hope that the other > centres will, and in fact that is the case with this piano, though I must > admit it seems to have had a pretty quiet life. > > Here is the article: > > <http://pianomaker.co.uk/technical/rebushing_hammers/> > > All comments are welcome > > JD > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090108/5b97a720/attachment.html>
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