<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>The Beauty of the Open-Faced Pinblock</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE type=text/css>BLOCKQUOTE { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } DL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } UL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } OL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } LI { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3086" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On this piano I am keeping the bottoms of my coils about 4 mm off the pinblock (one good coil thickness/height). Rather than measuring to the top of the pin, I place a small rectangular piece of maple 4 mm thick at the base of the coil. Then as I pound the pin in with my air hammer, I simply stop when the snugged coil bottom just touches the wood gauge. Seems to work quite well and addresses the question of how to measure pin height when using an air hammer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV>><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>I use a very simple little wooden shop-made jig, the design of which</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>>if my memory is correct, I got from Jon Page some years ago.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>The Becket Tool, google this:</DIV> <DIV>Becket Tool site:ptg.org</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>It's a pin height gage too.</DIV></X-SIGSEP> <DIV>Jon Page</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>