Preserving Key Forms
Key Forms Cut in Paper
After losing a key or two and having some difficulty in replacing them, I used the method shown in the sketch to preserve the outlines for making new ones. All the keys I had were traced on a piece of paper and their forms cut out with a pair of shears. When a key was lost, another could thus be easily made by using the paper form as a pattern.
Contributed by Ernest Weaver, Santa Anna, Texas.