<html> Hi John,                The Canadian supplier Pianophile, has .010"  shims. you can order on line.   Piano Tech in the US carries both an agraffe reamer, and a reamer for reducing the base of the agraffe.  Using both in combination along the agraffe line makes it easier to keep the string line level. Regards Roger At 11:27 PM 12/6/01 +0000, you wrote: >At 6:57 PM +0000 12/6/01, Barrie Heaton wrote: > >>  >Richard Gardner claims he's the only man in England with a stock of >>>these. >> >>Never come across this man  should I know him ? > >Contemporary of Bob Glazebrook way back at Steinways.  Went on his >own in Exeter years ago.  About the only man in England I ever phone >for advice.  Tells a good yarn and does a good piano  -- when he gets >round to it. > >>Fletchers have asked me to send them a few so they can see if they >>can make them,  but what amazed me is that they did not know what >>they was at first,  as no one had asked for them before, well in the >>last 15 years ! > >I blame Mrs. Thatcher!  They must have done a roaring trade in them in the 60s. > >JD > </html>