<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello list,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would anyone care to share their technique for locating and notching rib ends into the inner rim?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My first piano I used two sided tape on the rib ends and set the board in - the tape stuck to the inner rim and I used this to cut the notch.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This was not as accurate as I would have liked.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some of the other problems were the shape of the rib end - being tapered presented some difficulty with this notching - trying to match the taper was not easy. On the second piano the rib ends are flat.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also the depth of the notch - should the depth of notch exactly match rib end hight? Be slightly deeper?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How thick or thin should the rib end be? Thinner is better in my mind. Is there a limit on how thin?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any insights.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gene</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>