<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;= charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV align=left><SPAN class=860220620-19102004><FONT face=Arial= color=#0000ff size=2>I've never bent a spoon bender.  I= usually lose them way before that.   The thin, flat= spoon bender will not bend unless your tuning with= it...;-]</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV align=left><SPAN class=860220620-19102004><FONT face=Arial= color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV align=left><SPAN class=860220620-19102004><FONT face=Arial= color=#0000ff size=2>David I.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV align=left><SPAN class=860220620-19102004><FONT face=Arial= color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV align=left><SPAN class=860220620-19102004><FONT face=Arial= color=#0000ff size=2>----- Original message= ----------------------------------------><BR>From: ilex= cameron ross <<A= href="mailto:i1ex@earthlink.net">i1ex@earthlink.net</A>><BR>T= o: Pianotech <<A= href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Rec= eived: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:16:22 -0400<BR>Subject: RE: spoon= bender</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV align=left><SPAN class=860220620-19102004><FONT face=Arial= color=#0000ff size=2><BR>Actually, I've had the same problem. I= ordered mine from Schaff for the comb-handle. Not pleased. I= guess you get what you pay for!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px;= BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT= face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>= pianotech-bounces@ptg.org= [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of= </B>Alpha88x@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 19, 2004= 3:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:= spoon bender<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT= face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10"= FAMILY="SANSSERIF">In a message dated 10/18/2004 4:46:17 PM= Eastern Daylight Time, ilvey@sbcglobal.net writes:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px;= BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"= TYPE="CITE">How the heck did you bend a spoon bending tool?= </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Greetings,= <BR><BR>         &n= bsp;    Well... I think that the very first piano= I used it on, had really hard spoons, which may have initially= weakened the tool early in it's= life.<BR><BR>        &nb= sp;   After that....it sort of got gradually weaker.= The spoons in 100+ year old pianos seem very hard, for some= reason.  I think the integrity of the tool was further= compromised with each sucessive old piano with hard spoons that= I worked on.= <BR><BR>         &n= bsp;   One day, I went to bend spoons, I could feel= something bending (satisfying feeling to think you're= adjusting/correcting) but when I removed the tool and checked= the amount of ...damper lift etc...I noticed no change in= adjustment.= <BR><BR>         &n= bsp;    The bender wasn't doing it's job AT ALL,= even though I had the thing right at the base of the= spoon!   Then, I puzzlingly, looked at the tool and to= my dismay, noticed that IT was bent.  (Can you just picture= this?...whenever I look like this, my sister asks, "Did you do= another Lucy Ricardo") How un-nerving that was. I felt so out of= control.<BR>     <BR>Julia, <BR>Reading,= PA          &n= bsp;  = <BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>