HMS Enterprise 1775 1/96 - First build log

[RichardG]

Richard, if you ever get to Bristol, there is a model in the museum there of HMS Medea, an Enterprise class 28. I haven't seen it myself but have photographs and a book about the builder (of the ship and the model). I can send more details if you want.

I noted a picture in your Medea log regarding one of your father's tools that you hadn't identified.

It is piano technician's voicing tool. We use them with various numbers and grades of needles/pins to alter the density of the felt on the hammers when adjusting volume and tone. Looking at your example and the thick needles, I'd say it was for heavy use, so probably used at a piano factory when the action is first installed and the hammers may require more aggressive needling.

 

[Masters Mate]

I noted a picture in your Medea log regarding one of your father's tools that you hadn't identified.

It is piano technician's voicing tool. We use them with various numbers and grades of needles/pins to alter the density of the felt on the hammers when adjusting volume and tone. Looking at your example and the thick needles, I'd say it was for heavy use, so probably used at a piano factory when the action is first installed and the hammers may require more aggressive needling.

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Wow, I had no idea! Certainly my father had nothing to do with pianos but he could have obtained it anywhere.
Thanks for letting me know.

 

[AllanKP69]

It is piano technician's voicing tool.

Thanks for posting about this tool. Learning something new nearly every day here and that is a very good thing!
Allan

 

[etubino]

I noted a picture in your Medea log regarding one of your father's tools that you hadn't identified.

It is piano technician's voicing tool. We use them with various numbers and grades of needles/pins to alter the density of the felt on the hammers when adjusting volume and tone. Looking at your example and the thick needles, I'd say it was for heavy use, so probably used at a piano factory when the action is first installed and the hammers may require more aggressive needling.

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Thanks a lot! It´s a great and simple Idea! Is this tool for marking the planks selfmade by you?

 

[RichardG]

Thanks a lot! It´s a great and simple Idea! Is this tool for marking the planks selfmade by you?

If you search 'piano voicing tool', you'll find many available for sale,

 

[etubino]

If you search 'piano voicing tool', you'll find many available for sale,

Thnkas a lot! I will serach...

 

[GrantTyler]

I noted a picture in your Medea log regarding one of your father's tools that you hadn't identified.

It is piano technician's voicing tool. We use them with various numbers and grades of needles/pins to alter the density of the felt on the hammers when adjusting volume and tone. Looking at your example and the thick needles, I'd say it was for heavy use, so probably used at a piano factory when the action is first installed and the hammers may require more aggressive needling.

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Clever.

 

[Gventura]

Fantastic work, so much cleaner than mine.

 

[kuba91nt]

This doesn't look like the wood from the kit? Are you replacing wood material with something else?

 

[RichardG]

No

This doesn't look like the wood from the kit? Are you replacing wood material with something else?

No, this is just the kit wood, the boxwood kit contains three principle types of boxwood - a standard but rather brittle grey/yellow Castello - a few sheets of Chinese yellow - and one very unusual sheet of rich brown coloured boxwood that looks like pearwood. The last is what you see used for the groins and riding bitts.

 

[RichardG]

Started back on the 1:96. Still haven't received parts for building a wood thicknesser, so the 1:160 gun carriages will have to wait.

Currently working on the main deck. All pieces have been cleaned up prior to assembly, but glue at the joints yet to be removed. The deck surface won't be fully levelled until the whole level is completed. I tried a few test sandings a to break the monotony.

Frog tape is there to protect finish on the bits. The inner wall is getting a little scratched from test sandings, but I hope that can be easily cleaned up later, though I may tape it as well if it looks like it will be heavily scratched during levelling.