Rubbings and patterns

[John Delacour]

At 11:06 06/10/01 -0500, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> >Ron, here's the reason I ask people to reverse this sequence:
>
>JD, though I'm not a string maker, here's the reason I do it from the 
>hitch: [.....]I've never gotten a hint from any other string maker that 
>this is a problem.

Hey, Ron, I just love to deal with perfect repairers like you and Jon, who 
obviously don't need any guidance and will send the most beautiful rubbings 
and get lovely sets in return for their pains.

I wrote my message to a list of subscribers who are a cross-section of 
tuner/repairers of different levels of skill and neatness, exactly like my 
customer base.  Fifteen years of stringmaking and thousands of rubbings 
have taught me that if Mr. Average Tuner follows the directions I publish, 
he is more likely to send me a readable rubbing and I to send him the set 
of strings he deserves.

You've seen enough of other people's work to know just what I mean.

JD