<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><P>Michelle,</P> <P>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.</P> <P> </P> <P>Richard</P> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: garamond, new york, times, serif"><BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>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> <DIV>Michelle:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Paul</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune cookie)</STRONG></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 05/02/07 18:19:39 Central Daylight Time, michelle@smithpianoservice.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV> <STYLE type=text/css> .aolmailheader {font-size:8pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;} </STYLE> <STYLE> st1\:*{} </STYLE> <STYLE>  </STYLE> <DIV class=Section1> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi all.  Does anyone have a stringing jig they would like to sell for not-too-much money?  I need to start thinking about the PTG technical exam.</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Michelle Smith</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Smith Piano Service</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Bastrop</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">, Texas</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">(512) 466-0238</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">michelle@smithpianoservice.com</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></div><br> <hr size=1>Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?<br> Check out <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM-">new cars at Yahoo! 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