<!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 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl said: "<FONT face="Times New = Roman" size=3>I've long used a dial caliper for it.  Caught hell from = jumpin' Joe Garrett<BR>of the tool police for being too cheap to buy a = micrometer.<BR><BR>I think a caliper is plenty accurate for measuring wire.  After all = we are<BR>mainly checking an original scale and one or two thousands make little<BR>difference on the graph.  We really just want to see the = general shape of<BR>the tension/ inh curve.  Pscale then give an accurate = dimension for the new<BR>strings which is the important = thing."</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Jumpin' Joe" here!<G> If you = believe all of the above crap, then I've wasted a whole lot of my time, in our = conversations, for naught! :-(  Cheap-ass calipers are NOT accurate enough to do = the job. AND, if all you're looking at is "tension/inh curve", then you're = wasting everyone's time/energy/money, including your own! "one or two thousands" = makes a helluva lot of difference in music wire/scales. That's why they made the = damned stuff in .001" increments! Duh!<G> BTW, why don't you get a good = scale program?<G></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(BTW, Carl & I are kindred spirits = of like mind, MOST of the time. He's just a cheapskate, who likes to rattle = my cage every once in a while.<G>hehe)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>