<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>A search in the archives turned up this information:<br><br><a href="https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/1998-January/000333.html">https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/1998-January/000333.html</a><br><br>We do this on the Steinway Player Grands, and any others that use the leather buttons, and they look just like they left the factory.<br><br>Al, the Player Piano Guy<br>Chesapeake, Va<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 6/25/08, Paul Chick <i><tune4u@fmwildblue.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Paul Chick <tune4u@fmwildblue.com><br>Subject: RE: Old Style Leather Buttons<br>To: ilvey@sbcglobal.net, "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech@ptg.org><br>Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 9:36 PM<br><br><div id="yiv162366930"><title>RE: Old Style Leather Buttons</title>
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<p>Paul,</p>
<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 style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">David Ilvedson, RPT<br>
Pacifica, CA 94044</p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The shape that remains in the “bumper
places,” have crowned center with the edge recessed into the wood, I’m guessing
the enhance the “crown” shape of the bumper.</span></p>
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