<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>.hmmessage P { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY class=hmmessage bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ron & Michael,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>If I understand Ron's question/point here and what you guys are talking about, it is why duplicate the original pinblock to stretcher glue joint interface when it creates an angle. Unless I'm missing something the only two options I can think of would be to leave a little of the old block intact or to remove some of the stretcher back re-cutting it to a 90 degree orientation to the pinblock shelf. What's the advantage, time?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Fenton</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=m_spreeman@hotmail.com href="mailto:m_spreeman@hotmail.com">Michael Spreeman</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 04, 2008 8:01 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Doweled and Fully Fit Pinblocks</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>> Why would you care what the original joint angle might have <BR>> been from the front of the stretcher?<BR> <BR>I wouldn't.<BR> <BR>>Isn't the point to <BR>> establish a baseline standard that wasn't necessarily <BR>> (mysteriously and apparently arbitrarily) originally there, <BR>> the better to establish a defined and quasi rational starting <BR>> point?<BR> <BR><BR>Not necessarily in this thread, good point of clarification, thanks. I was responding and querying under the premise (possibly erroneous) that Fenton was wanting to duplicate what was done at the factory as opposed to assuming nothing was done exactly to spec at the factory. The latter being the more rational/logical approach in my opinion.<BR><BR> <BR> >You're hoggin' the sucker out to a new system reset that lets you do it your way <BR>> whatever was originally there, I'd hope.  <BR> <BR>Yeah, I'd hope so too.<BR> <BR><BR>  <BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#330033><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color=#330000>                Michael C. Spreeman </FONT><BR></FONT></EM><FONT color=#000066><A href="http://www.spreemanpianoinnovations.com/">http://www.spreemanpianoinnovations.com</A></FONT></DIV><BR><BR> <HR id=stopSpelling> > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:29:22 -0500<BR>> From: rnossaman@cox.net<BR>> To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>> Subject: Re: Doweled and Fully Fit Pinblocks<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> > Can we back up a step? How are y'all removing your original blocks? <BR>> > I've seen 3 styles of Stnwy stretchers. On the ones with an angle on the <BR>> > outer face and perpendicular on the inner face, we had an angled piece <BR>> > of spruce we would we would tape to the front of the stretcher in to run <BR>> > the router along (with the Bolduc cutter). This results in a <BR>> > perpendicular cut at the block joint.<BR>> > / Michael Spreeman<BR>> <BR>> Ron N<BR><BR> <HR> Get more from your digital life. <A href="http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home2_082008" target=_new>Find out how.</A> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>