spinning wire

[Newton Hunt]

>how you get the nice yellow color, and how exacting are the diameter
tolerances.  Anyone know this stuff?

We have been through this alread, look in the archives, but in answer to
your questions you can clean up the wire when you wrap by using ScotchBrite
type of scrubber.  It will remove survace corrosion and leave a nice shinny
finish to the string.

Copper is copper unless it has been alloyed, contaminated or drawn poorly.
If it goes onto a string and stays it is OK.  Copper comes in aboutforty or
so sizes that are suitable for string making.  From about .075 to about
..080.  Size 43 to size 14.

The size of the copper is critical to tension and limitedly to
inharmonicity.  Tone power is related to tension.  The distance of the
unwrapped ends is critical to inharmonicity.

Wrapping bass strings is not as simple as it appears when you watch a
winder.  Maintaining constant tension andkeeping wraps touching each other
takes much practice.

You will need a scaling program to determine what to use and where to start
and end.

Do you need some old hammers and steinway shanks?  I have a removed set for
an M (teflon and felt knuckles) and a set of Renner shanks and hammers for a D.

Lots of luck with your strings.

        Newton
        nhunt@jagat.com