<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Re: capo work</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <style> P { MARGIN: 0px } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div align="left">Thanks William...looking at the profile of the groove, the tool must be only an inch or so long?<br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "William R. Monroe" <pianotech@a440piano.net> </pianotech@a440piano.net><br/>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 12/10/2007 5:25:35 PM<br/>Subject: Re: capo work<br/><br/> <div align="left"><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="2">Found it.  Here are a couple photos.  Cork block, into which I've epoxied some "tootsie roll" type wood epoxy, which has been molded to match an existing capo profile.  I then trimmed off the excess on top, sides, ends to what worked for me.  </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="2">Emery cloth lays over the block just like a normal sanding block to reshape the capo.  BTW, when I molded the wood epoxy, I did so with a piece of emery cloth in place, to give me the proper profile.  Again, this is all assuming you like the existing profile.  Worked pretty well for me.</font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="2"> </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="2">William R. Monroe</font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="2"> </font><br/> </div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #000000 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"> <div align="left">I'd love to see a photo of the tool...<br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044</div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </body> </html>