John D, - and anyone else - following your lovely series of photos showing the removal of a string so as to look after the becket, do you have a preferred method for *installing new* strings, at the pin end (considerations of turns etc have already been covered here of course). What is the best way to form a becket in a new string? What are the relative merits of pre-forming with snipe-nosed pliers, as opposed to inserting the straight string end into the pin hole, keeping the string taught, and forming the becket on the pin? Best regards, David.
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