I like it! I remember at Yamaha they had us use a typical backcheck bender and you bent it into the hammer tail and with a little more pressure it took on the shape of the tail...angle... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "David Stocker" <firtreepiano at hotmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 11/15/2009 10:43:35 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bending new back check wires >I have done a couple of sets of grand back checks with wires lately. I had a >moment of inspiration and took one of the keys out and laid it on my photo >copier / printer and pushed copy. There is always a minor difference between >the original key and the printout, but it is certainly as close as a jig >might get you. Set the ends of sections and the rest can be eyeballed, or >straight-edged. >There are other reasons to copy an action part, too. Use your imagination. >Dave Stocker, RPT >Tumwater, WA
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