An improvement on the Schaff bass-string twister/installer would be.....

[John Delacour]

At 2:05 pm -0500 7/8/07, John Formsma wrote:

>A small spring clamp also works quite well.  I keep one of those in my
>stringing kit.  Small, so it takes up very little space.  Always
>handy, always there.

Not so much use as the vise-grip if you want to twist the string, 
though.  I use  a pair of 4" vise-grip type grips made in China that 
you can get very cheaply.

JD