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Trimming Plastic Keytops
By Douglas K. Rhodes

Several very good articles by Bill Spurlock have appeared in the Piano
Technicians Journal in recent years. He outlines procedures for building
jigs for trimming keytops with a table-mounted router and a carbide
laminate trimmer bit. The set-up works quite well, if you can stand the
screaming of a router for an hour at a time (even with ear plugs and
muffs). If anyone is interested, email me privately and I'll dig out the
specific articles.

Les Smith's suggestion of using a 1-inch belt sander looks like a _really_
good approach, which I'm going to try very soon. Steady hand, there...

Doug Rhodes
drhodes@islandnet.com


(Message sent Sat 3 May 1997, 18:15:52 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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