<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 5/31/2012 3:26 PM, Encore Pianos wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:000c01cd3f7c$7853e0f0$68fba2d0$@metrocast.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It turns out that the hammer shanks on the grand I am working on are undersized, about the diameter of spinet shanks but longer than the spinet version. I am thinking about reducing the ends of standard upright shanks after cutting them to size. However my standard hammer shank reducer can't take off that much (.04 inch). Is there such a thing as a tool that will reduce the shanks to the right diameter available?</pre> </blockquote> When I ran across this problem, many years ago, I went to a hardware store and bought long 3/16" dowels. Back then good quality maple dowels were the rule rather than being rare like today. If you could find some good quality maple 3/16" dowels, it would be easy to cut them to the desired length. Susan </body> </html>