Hi Chris, I'm having trouble visualizing the hanging of a Mother Goose level below the strings. First, it's pretty heavy (50 gm) and would take an awfully strong magnet (which would tend to defeat the purpose by pulling the three strings together into one plane). Second, I don't see what surface of the level would contact the strings, and how you would see or use the level part. Maybe I am just not imaginative enough. About a top heavy design, I have been using one for quite a while. I copied the idea back in 03 from Takatori Itake, one of the Shigeru Kawai MPAs, and came up with my own design based on materials at hand. I posted a photo to this list four years ago. Here it is again. I made a couple (one for each tool kit), and it is my level of choice. I like the fact it sticks up where I can see it, as well as the ability to read next to the strut. It _is_ a bit of a "pendulum," but with a very light touch I stabilize it with a finger or two. I'm so used to doing it, that I don't think about it. I usually want to manipulate the level a bit anyway, especially if the middle string is high, to see what and how much I want to do to which string(s). The one with the magnet I just posted is more stable, and doesn't need to be stabilized. Partly that's because the level part is lighter weight. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Apr 30, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Chris Solliday wrote: > I only want to put the magnet on it to hang it underneath, which I > gather you don't like either cause you have to go in and out of the > cavity. I've got a couple of these levels and will experiment with a > magnet and see what happens. It is precisely because I like the > Mother goose levels and find them well made and easy to use that I > want to try and find a way to keep using that one tool. > If I remove the dampers, which as Eric W and i agree is not too much > trouble for the result, I will only need to be bobbing and weaving > on the unisons right next to the plate break, in my mind a small > effort for a consistent result. > I look forward to the development of your tool Fred, it sounds like > a good idea, but I just can't get past the unweildiness of "top > heavy." I hope that you do. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090430/49fb651d/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 100_2001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 25758 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090430/49fb651d/attachment-0001.jpg>
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