<HTML>In a message dated 08/04/2002 10:52:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kdivad@AOL.COM writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am serious about understanding how your technique saves time and is easier, could you please go through the procedure to make it clearer?  I would greatly appreciate it. David Koelzer Vintage Pianos DFW </BLOCKQUOTE> Dave, I start by,say if I need 8 pieces of size 14,I go ahead and cut these,measuring all the same length,of the longest unison.This is very quick,and the pieces are beside me,tools laid out on the keybed.I coil the first pin and drive,stretching the string around the hitch pin,and onto the other pin,driving.Pick up another wire and repeat.The only cut now,is the four finger measurement,so I don't have to get up,having to stretch the wire out again,re-measure from front to back.Because it seems no matter how careful you measure,you still end up having to snip the end off, on the last pin of the unison. If you pull the wire out, have it going from the can,to the first pin,pulling more wire out,around the hitch pin,back up,and the measuring to the next pin to cut,wire out everwhere,very cumbersome it would seem.I don't know how well I explained this,I hope it helped. Best, Hazen Bannister</HTML>