New shanks into new hammers
Scott extracts an upright pinblock = gluing a new upright pinblock
Polishing a V bar under the plate.
Removing rotten pinblock blackened from pin dope. An unusually thin block of 1 1/4" (We took a 1.5" block down with an electric planner). It has a shelf, thus 2 flanges to fit, and a nice Steinway style notch. The top webbing required much fitting as the plate flange was curved making contact only at the ends. The 1894 original had warped upwards delaminating in the middle from this stress. Thus the failure,& many pin treatments over the years.
Block out -- we built a shelf out of the mortised rim creating a butt joint so we could dowel and epoxy the newly fit block to the old rim.
1)Rough cut of new block and 2) chisel off dowels after final fit
