On Apr 25, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ed Sutton wrote: > Fred- > > What about inverting it so that it hangs below the strings into the > action cavity? > > Ed S. I'm not sure I take your meaning. I guess you could level strings with the action out, but it would be hard to see the bubble from above, and you'd be doing a lot of reaching and bending, back and forth from lifting strings, looking, moving the device from one unison to the other. Steve Russo's devise seems like a better one for that, going up from the keybed. It looked pretty promising to me, reading through the patent. Especially for the first setup leveling. Easy to see the lights from above. Anyway, what I did was real cheap ($0 based on scavenged materials on hand, and 1/2 hour of expendable time). I do like to have a level to use while voicing. That way you can double check the string level, and go back and forth between mating and pulling/pushing strings. That is, you hear a suspect unison, and the first thing you do is put the level on it. If a string is low or high, you correct it. If it is level with the level, you check mating, and file the hammer if needed. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090425/082d209d/attachment.html>
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