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The Fender Rhodes Electric Piano / Re: Backrail felt: how thick can you go?
« on: January 26, 2021, 08:50:57 PM »Yeah, I thought about this while I was in there, but felt like it would have been a crime to carve a Rhodes like that.
There are two ways I think that thick backrail felt could be done:
Carve a groove in the case for the felt with a router. (For the plastic-key Rhodes that don't have a keybed.)
or
Install the thick felt, and sand down the back end of the keysticks to compensate.
All this brings another question to mind: how much should hammer-to-tine distance be? I haven't found anything about this in the forums or in the service manual. I didn't think of measuring it before installing the bump mod, but -after shimming the action rail to bring it back close to original- it seems to be around 47mm. (1"13/16) I also measured my MkV, where it's about 50mm (1"15/16).