<!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 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List and Phillip Ford who = said:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>>String speaking length terminated on the rim?  Now you've completely lost me.  Any possibility of some pictures? </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In answer to my comment: "String = spacing is by the holes on one side and string speaking-length is terminated on the rim opposite."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry, I didn't have my camera with me. = Maybe the choice of the term "rim" was unfortunate. OK. Imagine now that these = agraffes are made from a strip of channelled brass. Individual agraffes are cut = from this material. Holes (three, two or one) are drilled through one "rim" or = "side" or "upright" of this cut off piece of channel. This is for string = spacing. The other "rim or "side" or "upright" is only as high as the centre of = the three spacer holes opposite it. This is where the speaking length of the = string "terminates". Of course the actual string continues to the hitch in one direction and to the wrest pin in the other direction. Each agraffe is = held in place by a c/s brass wood screw, there being a counter-sunk hole drilled = through the base of the agraffe. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know a picture is worth a thousand = words, Phillip, but you've had to put up with the words! :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael = G.(UK)</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>