Dean<br>    The Henry Miller has 23 bass as well but the shape of your bridge should yield a far better tension overall. Beautiful legs baby!! I'll bet it has the raised  wooden paltform for the plate to sit on. You may be better off putting a the new adjustablee suspension bolts in. 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COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Dale</SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I only have tear down pics. The legs have obviously taken a beating. It was hand grained rosewood over mahogany- Asian, I think. I posted some pics of it previously showing the treble fish on steroids. I also posted pics showing full agraffes  and agraffes on the bridges. </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’m doing a basic restring, pinblock, hammers, refinish. Nothing exotic in the belly. I’m planning on routering out the pinblock fields and epoxying new sections of pinblock in place, per Terry Farrell’s previously posted pics. I’m gonna try it. Replacing the entire original block would entail some pretty exotic cutting and shaping. </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am wanting to rescale. It has 23 notes in the bass section; tenor notes 24 & 25 are plain at 1111 mm and 1078 mm respectively. The original scale still stenciled on the piano calls for 22 ga. We took of 21 ga for #24 and 20 ga for #25. Very little of what came off corresponds to the stencils. So who knows what is going on. Better to start over. </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’ve used Arledge before to do a rescale. Anyone have any other recommendations or want to play with it? </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> I’ll be happy to submit a spreadsheet.</SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Blessings,</SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div> <div class=MsoAutoSig><B><FONT face="Bradley Hand ITC" color=navy size=6><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 22pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bradley Hand ITC'">Dean</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoAutoSig style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoAutoSig style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Terre Haute</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"> IN  47802</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"></SPAN></FONT></div> </div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <A href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</A> [<A href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</A>] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B><A href="mailto:erwinspiano@aol.com">erwinspiano@aol.com</A><br> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, June 06, 2008 10:36 AM<br> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><br> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Hallet Davis teardown update</SPAN></FONT></div> </div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div id=u8CA95F9CB526F57-C0-3BEE> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 7.5pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><br> <br> <br> <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">  Hey Dean</FONT></I></EM><I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br> <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">  What are you doing to this old beast.  I Love the relics from 1890 to 1910. Real Tanks... with real redesign potential & gogeous cases. Real jig saw puzzles. Do you have an full glamour shot of this Beauty.</FONT></I></EM><br> <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Just remember these paraphrased words from Buddy Bob Davis. The key to successful piano work is be able to get yourself out of trouble. Wow...been scorching my ears all week.</FONT></I></EM><br> <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">  Now it's your turn</FONT></I></EM><br> <br> <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">  Dale</FONT></I></EM></SPAN></I> </SPAN></FONT></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id='u8CA9666EBCA825E-10CC-545B' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Stay informed, get connected and more <A title="http://mobile.aol.com/productOverview.jsp?productOverview=aol-mobile-overview&?&ncid=aolmbd00030000000139" href="http://mobile.aol.com/productOverview.jsp?productOverview=aol-mobile-overview&?&ncid=aolmbd00030000000139" target="_blank">with AOL on your phone</A>.</FONT> </div>