Fred's keyboard and action

The keyboard. Current project is to replace rockers with buttons and capstains.
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Setting capstain position using a wippen very close to the final (Kawai) wippens.
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Here you have an existing let-off button compared to the new position.
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The new drill press. For capstains and hammer boring.
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emoving the bump in the wippen rail.
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I'll make the buttons out of these nice pieces of maple that Steinway sent us.
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 can only clamp nine keys at a time. 9x10=88
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the keys are separated by a paddle-pop stick. The button here is kept in place by nails, as it tends to wander under the clamp. It's years since I last did this. Later I rmembered the way to do it quickly.
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Put the keys on a block of wood...
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Three pencil lines drawn along the keys. The left-most line is where the button should end. The other lines related to the capstains.
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A clamp is placed across the 9 keys in line with the pencil line. The piece of wood (aka the flitch) can be positions against the jaws of the clamp.
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t's glued and clamped.
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Some smaller clamps are added. Meanwhile I've been sawing the dried ones to separate them, and then I use my nice new bench sander to shape them. More photos on this tomorrow I hope.
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