Conrad Hoffsommer wrote: > Folks, > > We recently acquired a well used Schimmel grand which will need almost > everything. (Yes, it was also very cheap) > > When the time comes to restring, I'll be faced with 68 unisons of > individual strings. It has the German style loops with a double wrap > around the hitchpin. I've got no problem doing the single wrap slip > knot, and I'm sure I could figure out a way to make the doubles look > good, but as I'm not into reinventing the wheel, I wonder how others > have dealt with this. > > Do you make up a jig, just use a nail on the workbench, or what? I made a tool for this over thirty years ago. It's a maple dowel, hole drilled down through the center, lined with a small brass tube, so it'll out live me. One end has a #7 wood screw with the head cut off, and a small wire nail to provide something to pry the wire around the nail as I turn the tool. Turn in whichever direction is appropriate to make the tail end up pointing in the direction you want, and go twice around for double loops. The other end has just another small wire nail to hold the tail while I grip the loop with pliers and again, turn the tool. I've made hundreds of loops with this silly thing, and it continues to do the job quickly and easily without bloodshed. FWIW Ron N -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: make loop.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31060 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090522/bed6f2d6/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: twist.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 29059 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090522/bed6f2d6/attachment-0003.jpg>
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