This man undertook the project of upcycling an old piano he bought, into new furniture. He started by first taking it apart piece by piece, including the complicated string structure and cast iron base holding them in place. This proved to be a tiring but rewarding process.
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00:00Welcome back to the piano conversion project. Uh, where were we?
00:06That's it, the strings. It's time to take these strings out. I used a socket from an extra one
00:12that I had to actually fit on top of the little keys and used an extra extension that I had to
00:17make a key removal tool. Obviously it's not coming apart. I'm not the greatest welder, but I mean it
00:23pretty much held up the whole time. So I'm just trying to clean it off and whatnot. I had to stick
00:27it in my drill and then loosen the key up, take the string out, and just keep rinse, repeat, rinse,
00:33repeat. This part was kind of fun. I still have the strings. I don't know what I'm going to do
00:37with them, but it seems a waste to throw them away. Um, but yeah, so there's that.
00:45I feel like I should say something because like
00:49it's kind of that awkward silence. Um, how's your day? I hope you're having a good day.
00:56My day is going well, thank you. Okay, so here we are at the bottom,
01:01taking loose the rest of those strings. Um, so I'm gonna try to take the entire harp out now.
01:06Uh, you'll see that I'll try to take it out in one piece, but that does not happen. Spoiler alert.
01:11So once I took all the bolts and screws out of it, I ended up just taking my side grinder to it
01:16and just trying to cut the bits off. It was cast iron, so this was the heaviest part of the whole
01:21piano. Um, I also figured out that all those little key pins were the things holding the top
01:27together. So I had to basically smash them in, hammer them in, and then pull the top part of
01:33the harp out, which this part really, uh, I shouldn't have been knocking it in as far because
01:38that just made it that much worse. To do this part, this took forever. I used my key removal tool to,
01:45uh, basically ream it out in the hole and then got my channel locks and worked it out. Uh,
01:50this was not pleasant. Trying to use my impact like that. I burned it up, so I had to take a
01:55break on it, let it cool down, charge up, and all that good stuff. But there they are. They're
01:59finally done. I did keep the keys. I'm planning on making key rings out of them and selling them,
02:04but, uh, here we go. Here are the bones of the desk. Um, I, hopefully the next time we see it,
02:11we'll start working on it.