[CAUT] "Xuron" string cutting tool recommendation

[Ken Zahringer]

I bought a pair a number of years ago, right after Pianotek started carrying
them.  I have restrung a couple of pianos with them, and replaced an untold
number of strings, including the bottom string (C0) on our Bosendorfer
concert grand.  They're still going strong.  I'd buy anything Xuron makes.

Ken Z.
-- 
Ken Zahringer, RPT
Piano Technician
MU School of Music
297 Fine Arts
882-1202
cell 489-7529


> From: Jeff Olson <jlolson at cal.net>
> Reply-To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:12:27 -0800
> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] "Xuron" string cutting tool recommendation
> 
> Probably old hat to some of you, but I'm thrilled with a new
> string cutter I recently purchased -- the Xuron wire cutter from
> Pianotek (called "our favorite wire cutter" in the catalogue).
> 
> It sold me when the cut wire didn't fly off and impale something
> or someone -- much like those renegade breaking bass strings --
> but was held neatly in place.  I was doubly sold by the ease of
> operation -- surprisingly small (I would've expected it needed
> more leverage) and requiring little effort to chop through the
> heaviest gauge bass string wires I was replacing on a small grand
> today.  Heck, it was easy to cut through *two* 17 gauge wires at
> once!  That definitely sent a sharp tingle through me!
> 
> Also, its compactness allows easy access to those "hard to cut
> places."   Women should love it for its ease of use and elegant
> style, and men for its blunt, macho, take-no-prisoners attitude
> (or vice versa, as the case may be :-).
> 
> Only question remaining is durability.  But this tool really has
> me turned on so far, if you can't tell.
> 
> Jeff O. 
>