Dark Star Woodworking

08/30/2022

Putting up a pole barn in Wheeler for Beverly's dad.
It's kind of nice out this way

02/18/2022

Fine tuning and alignment time.
It even made noise.

02/15/2022

More progress

02/09/2022

It's starting to look like a piano

11/22/2021

Drilling Hammerheads. The first jig plate with the radius was thought and planned and cut... And upon assembly, given to the puppies as wood to chew. I didn't need the radial slot, it's a single pivot..
It works great now.

11/11/2021

Just a couple cool pictures of the hammer butts and butt springs

10/27/2021

Here is a link to the whole hammer butt rebuild video, our first on YouTube. Hit subscribe if it was interesting, funny or if you have a predilection for subscribing to YouTube channels.

Removing heads, rebuilding the felt and buckskin bits on the hammer butts from an 1873 J&C Fischer upright piano. The first video I've posted here, and I hop...

10/17/2021

I like big butts, and I cannot lie. Well, appropriate sized butts for an old Fischer upright. And just to add, I get my butt felt by the folks at Howard Piano Industries.

10/14/2021

Spring rail. Not as tasty as a spring roll. Who am I kidding, I don't like sushi...

10/07/2021

Waiting on some parts through FedEx ... The package made it to Idaho, about 6hours from here... And then went on a plane back to Florida.
Now it has milk-runned all the way back to the gorge in Oregon...though it looks like it might overshoot Oregon and hit Washington this time ...

I'm struck by Chico in Night at the Opera..

Fiorello : [Disguised as one of the world's greatest aviators]
"So now I tell you how we fly to America. The first time we started we got-a half way there when we run out a gasoline, and we gotta go back. Then I take-a twice as much gasoline. This time we're just about to land, maybe three feet, when what do you think: we run out of gasoline again. And-a back-a we go again to get-a more gas. This time I take-a plenty gas. Well, we get-a half way over, when what do you think happens: we forgot-a the airplane. So, we gotta sit down and we talk it over. Then I get-a the great idea. We no take-a gasoline, we no take-a the airplane. We take steamship, and that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean."

10/02/2021

Back check restoration. Making the old new again

09/30/2021

As Beverly said today,
"You really like your butt felt, huh..."