[CAUT] "Xuron" string cutting tool recommendation

[Avery Todd]

If you have Catalog #6, they're on P. D-31.

Avery Todd

At 09:04 AM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
>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
>Greg's Piano Forté
>mailto:gnewell at ameritech.net
>www.gregspianoforte.com
>