<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great question, Jean-Luc. Here's what I do:<div>---make sure the key travel is precisely set with the action in the piano. My ideal is 10.2 mm on every key.</div><div>---with the action on the caddy, recreate key travel---and do all subsequent work---in three sections: bass, tenor, and treble.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I do the tenor first, then the bass, then the treble. I adjust the reverse glide bolts on the caddy to make the section I'm </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>working on comply exactly with the in-cavity key travel. Thus, you need to</div><div>---use your dip block frequently; check key travel consistently as you work. Get in the habit of seeing the dip block as an </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>essential part of your work.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps....</div><div><br></div><div>DA<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:57 PM, <a href="mailto:Jlmatt@aol.com">Jlmatt@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"> <div>I have one too and I have a question for David Andersen . It seems to me that you can recreate the key travel exactly only in the middle of the action since the caddy does not span the whole keyframe (it hangs down at both ends), how do you deal with that? </div> <div> </div> <div>Jean-Luc Matton</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>In a message dated 9/28/2011 5:38:38 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:laura-olsen@att.net">laura-olsen@att.net</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">Hi David, <div>I have one too and love it.</div> <div>Laura Olsen</div> <div> <div> <div>On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:02 PM, David Andersen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space">The best <b>traveling</b> bench I've ever found is this: <div><a title="http://www.edwardsstringcovers.com/brochureCaddy.pdf" href="http://www.edwardsstringcovers.com/brochureCaddy.pdf">http://www.edwardsstringcovers.com/brochureCaddy.pdf</a></div> <div><br></div> <div>-light, portable</div> <div>-wheeled</div> <div>-collapsible</div> <div>-durable-7 years and counting (LOTS of use)</div> <div>-and (best of all) EXACTLY recreates key travel on the bench:</div> <div><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"></span>a huge step up in precision</div> <div><br></div> <div>A Hall of Fame tool in my world.........</div> <div><br></div> <div>David Andersen</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br> <div> <div>On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Jim Moy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div>On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:24 AM, J Patrick Draine <<a title="mailto:jpdraine@gmail.com" href="mailto:jpdraine@gmail.com">jpdraine@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite">Some time ago, on one or another of our lists, someone wrote about his<br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite">inexpensive work around to achieve a height adjustable workbench....<br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite">...Can anyone dredge up a copy of that post?<br></blockquote><br>You mean this one?<br><br> <a title="http://blog.duanemcguire.com/2009/10/31/adjustable-height-workbench-assembly-table/" href="http://blog.duanemcguire.com/2009/10/31/adjustable-height-workbench-assembly-table/">http://blog.duanemcguire.com/2009/10/31/adjustable-height-workbench-assembly-table/</a><br><br>Jim<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>=</font></blockquote></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>