<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Ed Sutton <<a href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">ed440@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">John-</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">In this situation you could have used a larger diameter leader.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I wonder if something in your splice technique is making a ding in the wire.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Were you splicing in the speaking length, or above the top bearing bar pin?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><font color="#888888"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ed Sutton</font></div></font></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Ed,<div><br></div><div>The first time, I used a larger diameter leader. The second time, I used the same size as the original core.</div> <div><br></div><div>I don't think anything that I did would have made a ding in the wire -- at least not where it broke. The splice was in between the pressure bar and the tuning pin.</div><div><br></div><div>And regarding your subsequent e-mail, it was the leader wire that broke each time. The original wire and splice loop were obviously fine, since neither broke. :-)  Usually, it's the other way around when I do it -- the original wire breaks, and the leader wire is fine.</div> <div><br></div><div>You could see small indentions in the V-bar, but it looked normal. So I don't think the string was impeded by anything that might cause it to break under tension.  (I couldn't feel the back side of the pressure bar.)<br clear="all"> <br>-- <br>JF</div>