Moreover, I always replace. While Paul's method clearly produces a beautiful shape I find it's far too time consuming. A quick hand dressing of the new agraffe may not produce as beautiful a result under the microscope but as long as they don't make noise I'm fine. The other issue with old agraffes is the shape of the base and the threading which tends to encourage shank failure. Sometimes you have to choose your battles. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:04:31 To: <caut at ptg.org> Reply-To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring... There can be plenty of reasons to replace agraffes. Never say never; you obviously haven't seen some of the hopeless agraffes that have come through my shop. Kent On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Jim Busby wrote: > We never replace agraffes, mainly because we refurbish them like Paul Revenko-Jones does. WAY better than new ones because new ones aren’t shaped correctly either. Waste of time to just replace them. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100804/3fc33418/attachment.htm>
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