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<p align="left">Paul,</p>
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<p>If you have an old one, I'd imagine you could punch the same diameter with shoe leather and glue it into the existing hole? What is special about the holes? </p>
<p>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/></p>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Paul Chick"
<tune4u@fmwildblue.com> </tune4u@fmwildblue.com><br/>To: Pianotech@Ptg.Org
<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 6/24/2008 9:11:55 AM<br/>Subject: Old Style Leather Buttons<br/><br/>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">List members:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A client wants the original leather buttons installed on his ebony grand. They are glued into a specially shaped hole in the lid, etc. Wasn’t there an article in the PTJ about how to make/replace these bumpers. Some of them were lost in the veneer repair stages. I usually fill the old holes and use a stem bumper that’s available through supply houses. But he wants to stay as original as possible. Right now, all I have is modified spade bits for the convex and concave profiles to form the holes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul C</p>
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