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<font size=3>Is this in Houston? <br><br>
Avery <br><br>
At 07:01 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote:<br><br>
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Call Mike White at Plum Pianos and see if he has some waste pinblock
material of the right size, and ask him to drill the holes. With
Paul's instructions, sounds like you could make a killer jig! The
next time I go through there, I think I'll ask him (or probably Markus,
who is more likely to be there!) for some spare pinblock.<br><br>
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Richard<br><br>
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From: PAULREVENKOJONES <paulrevenkojones@aol.com><br>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:58:46 PM<br>
Subject: Re: Stringing jig<br><br>
Michelle:<br>
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Here at the school I made 6 jigs in about an hour for our students from
pieces of pinblock material, 8" x 24" with a tuning pin toward
one end as the hitch (anything else would pull out and it just means that
you have to make your single-loop bigger to adapt, not a bad attitude to
have), and two pins offset toward the front. In between, I created a
large half-round from a 1 1/2" dowel for a bearing surface at the
front, and a smaller half-round from a 3/4" dowel as a rear bearing
surface. There are no agraffes, but it's plenty like a stringing reality
to get the job done; splicing in the non-speaking length is just as
tricky. The jigs are clamped flat to mimic grands, and double-clamped
vertically to mimic uprights so that students get to figure out the
differences between wirebend strategies for the two. If you want a
picture let me know.<br>
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Paul<br>
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In a message dated 05/02/07 18:19:39 Central Daylight Time,
michelle@smithpianoservice.com writes:<br>
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stringing jig they would like to sell for not-too-much money? I
need to start thinking about the PTG technical exam.<br>
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<dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Thanks!<br>
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<dd><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=3>Smith Piano Service<br>
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<dd><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=3>Bastrop, Texas<br>
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<dd><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=3>(512) 466-0238<br>
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