Hi Ed, Yes, as the topic seems to suggest in the word Remedial, not fine work. The tool will take away most of the non-parallelness of the strings, but at the same time removes some of the elasticity of the string, limiting the amount of movement available to compensate for misdrilled agraffes. A catch 22, Save some work, make your work harder <g> Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <A440A@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 9:21 PM Subject: Re: Re: Strate Mate...Was Remedial String Leveling > > <<For fine leveling though, well lets say that I have my own negative > thoughts. A little off from plumb and the whole thing gives tilted results.>> > > Greetings, > I haven't found this to be much of a problem. If the strate-mate is > lifting the strings .125"-.150", the final alteration of the string height is about > .025"-.050" at most. If the tool is out of plumb by .020", the out of plumb > resulting at the string height is hard to measure. > That said, I don't use the tool for mating hammers to strings, just to > save work as I take out the majority of the curvature as it leaves the agraffe or > capo. > For final leveling, the individual treatment of the strings is really the > only way to go. > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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