[CAUT] "Xuron" string cutting tool recommendation

[Greg Newell]

Can anyone provide a picture of these wonderful 
cutters? I don't see them in the catalogue.

Greg Newell


At 09:23 AM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
>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.
> >

Greg Newell
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