<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; khtml-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV> <DIV>Bill,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Someone,  I think it was Paul Revenko-Jones, showed a Stew-Mac diamond fret file in a convention classs.  It had been modified by brazing on a handle which would allow you to work from above the plate without removing it from the piano.  You would have to remove the strings.  Clever idea, which I've not followed up on, so no experience to report.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mike </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=yardbird@vermontel.net href="mailto:yardbird@vermontel.net">william ballard</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 3/24/2006 8:34:05 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: v-bar/capo repair (filing compared)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><BR> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">Thanks to everyone, Mark & Joe, for the information you've passed on to me.  With all the information and the practicing I've done, I feel like I can go in and find out what the heck is happening with this piano.</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV> <DIV>Here's an idea I remember from 12(?) years ago but never tried. Guitar frets flatten with wear, and need to be restored to a small radius profile. (Same thing with capo bars.) It seems as though is would take the guess work out of forming a profile by hand when he plate is still in the piano and you can only view the surface being work, with a mirror. Anybody have any experience with these? Quite likely guitar frets are much softer than plate iron, but <FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000>Stewart-MacDonald has diamond fret dressers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_supplies/Fretting_tools:_Fret_dressing,_polishing/Three-in-one_Fret_File.html">http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_supplies/Fretting_tools:_Fret_dressing,_polishing/Three-in-one_Fret_File.html</A></DIV></DIV><BR> <DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Bill Ballard RPT</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">NH Chapter, P.T.G.</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:wbps@vermontel.net">wbps@vermontel.net</A></DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#fc0008 size=4></FONT><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></SPAN></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>