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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This post is a follow up to my post a =
couple days
ago regarding gluing felt to treble hammer tips on an economy job =
because
the treble hammers had been worn down to the wood core.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So now I have this set of 90-year-old =
hammers that
look like Montana's buttes - it appears someone filed the grooves =
out
previously, but filed a flat surface to the hammer top. Now keeping in =
mind this
is a budget job - "please just make it work", I couldn't see hand filing =
88
hammers to some idealistic shape.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then I saw my belt sander.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Guess what I did? Yup, fire that sucker =
up and gang
"file" both sides at about 10 and 2 o'clock until the flat top was only =
a couple
millimeters wide. Then I took a coarse sandpaper paddle and rounded =
things off
and followed up with shoe-shine sanding with 220 and then 320. I think =
it
produced a reasonable strike surface. The rest of the hammer looks a bit =
funky,
but I think I have produced a reasonble strike point. If you were =
to file
the hammer so it had a nice egg shape, you'd end up filing way more felt =
off - I
figure no reason to do that - action is pretty light as it is. I gang =
sanded
about 10 hammers at a time (half a section) and did not worry about =
hammer
angle. Again, on an old worn-out piano like this, and the desire to be
economical with our work, it seems to me this might just be a good =
approach to
"please, just make things work".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fire away!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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