> On the subject of the bass tri-chords in some of the vitage > Chickerings, sorry I do not know the exact models, I have one or two > I take care of with problems in this area. Very small gauge > tri-chord notes with strings breaking. The wires break sometimes mid > span during playing. Mid span? That's pretty weird. What is the core break% of the ones that break? > As part of a bass re-string or a more major overhaul would the > re-scaleing of these notes to bichord be for any reason unadviseable. Depends on whose advice you solicit. With customer approval, I'll eliminate wrapped trichords every time and go to bichords. > Also, recently someone pointed out that changing wire sizes (plain > wire) did not change the breaking point % of a note. After a few > sample problems in P-Scale I confirmed this. This was really a > forehead slapper for me. If this is true, bridge re-scaling is the > only option for changing BP %. On plain wires, yup. You can change tension, but to change break%, you gotta change speaking length. Ron N
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