[pianotech] First Pinblock

[Ron Nossaman]

On 2/4/2013 11:06 AM, David Love wrote:

>
> I don't prefer to do the mating at final installation, as suggested in
> another post, as I always find some cleanup to do and sometimes some squeeze
> out  into the tuning pin area underneath the plate.  I prefer to clean that
> up before I actually drill the holes for the tuning pins rather than risk
> some squeeze out into a freshly drilled hole.

The block is already fitted, so there's no need to pile on enough epoxy 
to squeeze into a plate hole, and the block isn't freshly drilled if you 
drill it in the piano just before stringing, as I do. What squeezes out 
underneath wipes up easily.

Ron N