[CAUT] Hardness of termination vs string breakage (was Re: restrung D)

[Alan McCoy]

Well said Fred. Hence my question as to radius.

Alan


> From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:26:13 -0600
> To: caut <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hardness of termination vs string breakage (was Re:
> restrung D)
> 
> On 4/24/07 1:55 PM, "Jim Busby" <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I think Fred addressed capo dressing a few years back in his very
>> thorough manner. As I remember here is the gist of it; the v bar can't
>> be too sharp because it will wear/fracture too fast and soon be rounded
>> anyway, but now with string grooves. He also referred to a .5mm contact
>> point and that stuck with me.
> Hi Jim,
>     Not me. I have never come to any firm opinion about the best shape for a
> capo. I do think it stands to reason that "too sharp" (wherever you draw
> that line) is a bad idea, especially if it is "too soft." Seems to me if you
> want a very sharp termination you should harden it (and then you might want
> to worry about angle of deflection, and about just how much you work the
> wire when leveling strings). But that's about as far as I go, besides the
> obvious: clean and polished and lubed with something or other <G>.
>     About what the profile should be, I think people do a lot of talking at
> cross purposes. Similar to talking about how close you do letoff. It depends
> a lot on whose eye is estimating, and how you are measuring. Same thing with
> a capo. Radius, diameter, amount of surface contact, curvature, type of
> curvature (eg, curvature in the back and sharp at the front), lots of
> different ways of describing, and not much consistency from one person to
> another. Unless somebody has an actual template, it's hard to compare what
> different people are talking about.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
> 
>