[pianotech] Safe-T-Planer

[chrisstor at aol.com]

"...In the past I've used the Safe-T-Planer for this job, but
I've quit that, since I've not been happy with the inconsitency of the keys
coming out Square..."

Joe Garrett

.....At the end of the email you said you were no longer using the Sate-T-Planer
to plane the top of the keytops.  Just wondering, how are you doing it now?

David Weiss....

Joe, 

I second David's question.  I use the Safe-T-Planer with good results and haven't had the out-of-square problem you've cited.  Can you expand a little bit on the out-of-square results you get with the Safe-T-Planer?  What might've caused it?  What's your alternate method for planing down keytops now?

When I'm using the rotary planer, I'm careful to square the drill press table to the chuck, and lock everything down firmly.  
As I'm planing the keys, I check my thickness with calipers for each of the first few notes, and then one note per octave thereafter.  I've never had an out-of-square issue that I noticed, but then maybe I'm not looking hard enough.  I acknowlege that I have to do some minor squaring and spacing of keys when the whole set is finished, but I just figured that was part of the deal in putting on new keytops.

If you have the time to write, I'd like to hear about your experiences.  Thanks.

Chris S.
Belmont, MA

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