Hello Patrick, Sounds like you had a "fun" time yesterday. Hope you don't have to repeat it anytime soon. Yes, those beckets and string ends can be very sharp and can easily cut and scratch and puncture leaving us scraped or cut or bleeding. I really don't care for the idea of trying to save old strings. If they were bad enough to be replaced in the first place, why bother. I can't ever remember messing up a new string bad enough that I couldn't use it. I think the worst I did was cut the end too short and couldn't wrap it around the pin quite as many turns as it's neighbor. I am curious about one thing you mentioned, though. You were wanting to use gloves. I have never gotten along with gloves, even in cold weather. I've never felt like I had nearly the control over my tools or the object I'm working on. During my trip to various shops and even to the Baldwin factory, I don't recall seeing a pair of gloves in the restringing department. (I will use gloves when I'm working in heavy solvents and such, though. I'm rather attached to having skin!) That being said, my wife just commented this morning about my hands. I've been doing more shop work than anything else. I've also been doing some outside work on occasion. And since I seldom wear any gloves, my hands have been getting more callous, tougher, rougher. Honestly, I don't mind. I kind of like the idea that I'm not necessarily going to have blisters every time I have to do something unexpected like change a tire along the side of the road or saw up some branches that fell in a wind storm, or restring a bass section. Rambling on, as usual... Back to work. Take care, Brian T. ===== Brian Trout Grand Restorations 3090 Gause Blvd., #202 Slidell, LA 70461 985-649-2700 GrandRestorations@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
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