Re: [Harp-L] embossing a pocket pal

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't. You use a punch. But hardly worth the time and risk. 
smo-joe

On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:16 AM, Music Cal wrote:

> I bought a diatonic Hohner Pocket Pal (about 6 US dollars) with which I
> have been learning to gap reeds. After a couple hours of tinkering I got
> the reeds to respond much better. But these things leak a lot! There are
> big spaces between reeds and reed plates especially at the ends of some of
> the reeds. So I thought I would try my hand at embossing too. I don't have
> a good embossing tool yet so I tried using a penny. I was not able to close
> the space near the ends of the reeds much. Did I mention that there's a big
> space there?! Big.
> 
> So how do you emboss to close such big space?
> 
> MusiCal