<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3132" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ahh, kinda late in the thread, but I've been thinking...oh no!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm looking to upgrade my string terminations on my rebuilds too like so many of you cool guys and gals so my questions are:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <OL> <LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>How do bend your half rounds to conform to any required sweep? Clamp in a form?</FONT></LI> <LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why brass? It is so soft, will get marred by the strings and eventually tarnish?  Why not anondized aluminum or titanium? If it's a question of economics, shouldn't we at least plate the brass?</FONT></LI></OL> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any thoughts...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jude Reveley, RPT<BR>Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC<BR>Lowell, Massachusetts<BR>(978) 323-4545</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>