With the keys all returned to the rack, I looked for any that seemed to lean a little bit right or left, causing the spaces between the keys to be uneven. A little tap to the balance pins one way or the other helped.
The north/south unevenness of the keys will be corrected later on when I balance them. But that's a ways down the road.
To help me get a good visual, I took the name board and fall board and laid them across the backs of the keys to hold them all down equally.
Much better.
I'll probably do a little sanding on the sides of a few of the keys to even up a couple of spaces that still need some more help.
Next came inspecting the ends of the (soon to be) black keys. The ends of many of them were really chewed up, almost as if termites had been nibbling away.
The manual says to make sure the ends look good. The only fix was wood filler. Not a very good match, but I suspect those ends won't show very much, if at all. And I'm hoping the critical eye will be drawn to the pretty cherry wood tops that will be added next.
