Hi Andrew Leveling strings in itself is as you say, easy enough. String noises often prompt techs to yank out their lifting tools and take things a step farther. Some even start of the origional process with a wholesale lifting of all strings with this in mind. I take a more conservative approach to all termination issues. If its not causing a problem.. then dont fix it... and if it is then dont do any more fixing then is really needed. You bring up a good point below. There is a time when really one should be removing strings and doing a nice job of cleaning up the capo and agraffe holes. btw.. the point you bring up about agraffes remindes me of something S&S Hamburg does relative to hammer traveling. Because agraffe holes can be bored into the plate at less then perfect distances from one another, they use traveling to maintain perfect string spacing and still allow for the hammer to meet the unisons dead on. So next time you start to lift the hammers on a Hamburg S&S and see that some are traveling a good deal to the left or right... you might double check the agraffe alignment before you <<correct>> the situation. Cheers RicB Ric, Barbara, ........... At some point, lifting/levelling at the capo is enough and the problem is about the condition of the termination. Ie. getting under there with a dremel and stone, or a file (saintly patience required) and getting rid of cut-up material. Is this what it is about? I find that some agraffes on a popular make don't have holes all nicely lined up in a row. Real nuisance for levelling to make a damper perform better. In this case it is better to level and not indiscriminately lift. Andrew
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