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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net" target="_blank">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 8/11/2012 9:07 AM, Michael Magness wrote:<br><br><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Sorry Ron I missed your Journal T&T article I've been doing this for years,<br></blockquote><br></div>Me too, Mike. Lots of years. Kerfing and gluing is a very old method of "bending" wood, and still works pretty well after all those hundreds of years. Not that I've been doing it for hundreds of years, but someone has, and a good old idea stolen is still a good idea.
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">You're probably right about this particular key,<br></blockquote><br></div>Well, this particular key is what we're talking about, and there's no indication at all that the warp has anything to do with it not working whereas it's very obviously front heavy as were a whole lot of others I've experienced. Personally, I like to start with the very obvious basics first.
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I haven't used your<br>"whittling" technique although it makes sense I have seen keysticks from<br>
old uprights with cutawys similar to yours.<br></blockquote><br></div>Which is probably where I got the idea originally. Point is that it directly addresses the most likely real cause of the problem, and it's really easy to do (if you don't remove the fallboard and can't get it back in <G>).<br>
Ron N<br></blockquote></div>
<div><br>Point(s) taken(G)</div>
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<div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br> <br><span>I think we are a product of all our experiences.</span> <br><span><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sanfordiw283095.html" target="_blank">Sanford I. Weill</a></span> <br>
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