[CAUT] Lacquered hammers

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sun Feb 20 19:50:51 MST 2011


On 2/20/2011 7:33 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
> Mine shows it a little lower but still higher than I'd consider safe.
>
> Considered switching from a wrapped bi-chord to a plain steel tri-chord?
> According to my spreadsheet this might actually work better. F#-3 (note 34,
> right?) with a length of 865 mm and plain wire of 0.041" to 0.043" diameter
> looks acceptable depending, of course, on what is above and below.
>
> ddf

Yes, that would have been nice, if not for the 3 or 4 wrapped bichords 
above it, tuning pin and hitch count and placement. Unfortunately, 
fixing it isn't in the cards, just minimal tuning recovery.
Ron N


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