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Centering the reed's rivet end?
Centering the reed's rivet end?
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Vaclavh
12 posts
Jan 01, 2025
1:02 PM
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Hello great masters of magic customized harps, much more experienced than me. Please tell me, how much do you care about the rivet end being exactly centered?
I see (using microscope) like three rivet ends worth re-centering per plate for good Hohners (SP20 and better) and I take great care to fix these. But maybe leaving it off-center (as long as it plays, and reeds in SP20 and better usually do) and just embossing around is maybe equally good? What is your experience?
I am just inventing new and new tools to center the rivet end, not really liking any so far...
(To make it clear: No, I do not mean rotating the reed around the rivet to center the far end. I mean a lateral shift just at the rivet place, using precisely delivered hammer force or some similar technique.)
Last Edited by Vaclavh on Jan 01, 2025 1:15 PM
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Vaclavh
13 posts
Jan 05, 2025
12:19 PM
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Hmm, maybe I am the only one who cares. Anyway, in case you try this, too, I can recommend an ordinary 6mm classical screw as an impact tool, the head with a screwdriver slot is by far the best impact tool to safely hit the rivet from a side. In fact this tool makes river-side centering quite a nice activity so I do not need an answer for my previous question anymore :)
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