<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I bought the canister in which pencil leads are kept. It's got a snap top, and is clear palstic, so you can see how many needles you've got. It holds about 50 needles. </FONT></div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><br> To: Pianotech <Pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 5:15 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] Voicing needle canister<br> <br> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_564caea8-42c0-45c7-b929-fe4b11561906><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT> Out in the shop yesterday, I was sorting through various envelopes of voicing needles and decided it would be a fine thing to have a sturdy can of some sort to keep them in. There exist a number of small nifty wood canisters that are fine storage containers for just such, but they tend not to age gracefully and the lids aren't dependable. There are nice little plastic or glass containers too, that would be ideal. But I didn't have any of these. So I went to the drawer where I keep brass tubing and found what I needed to make one. Back at the beginning of time, I had made a case like this for pinning drill, file, reamer, and broach, that has proven to be fairly indestructible, so it ought to work for voicing needles too. The tubing is K&S Engineering, from just about any hobby shop or hardware store in the country. The ends are plugged with lead free solder. It didn't take long to make, even with my uncharacteristically buffing it to a shine of sorts, and can be made as big or small as the tubing selection allows. I always found it much more therapeutic to make something rather than buying it, and this is fairly cheap therapy. Kent Swafford posted a through the strings voicing tool the other day made of rectangular tubing from the same source. Also available is brass sheeting and music wire in 3' lengths in diameters to 1/4" or more, useful in making special use tools of various sorts. One of the many often overlooked resources out there. Ron N </TT></PRE></div> <br> </div> </font>