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JimBrown257
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Re: Shop work pictures

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Bill DeShivs wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:18 am Here's the Sheffield piece.
Thanks, I wanted to see an original English rocker.

What do you think of the button mechanics on the Korn?
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The Korn mechanism was/is a failure.
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It is pretty funny that Korn paid to patent a design no one would ever copy. To bad he isn't around to see what those ones sell for now.
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The design requires a bolster that is milled on the inside. Each one had to be individually set up and milled on a milling machine.
The mechanism is delicate and goes out of time easily. There are much simpler mechanisms that have withstood the test of time.
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