Jeff, Good question. Obviously I think it is necessary. People think I’m nuts, but this is one thing I’ve experimented enough with that I think is worth doing. If even one agraffe starts to sizzle in a month, a year, or 5 years later, and I have to remove it, how much time does THAT take to restring, etc? If 4 or 5 do it, then who’s wasting time? That’s my point. I don’t believe it is as you say below because I have tested polished agraffes by installing them and pulling the note up to pitch, then removing them to see what happens to the newly polished agraffes. They showed no sign of a groove. After about 1 year, and again 3 years I took one off, and it still looked good! So… here’s my theory; Most new agraffes don’t have a very tapered, smooth hole. There are some rather sharp, angular and jagged things living in there. Eventually the string movement causes this stuff to move and form a lip that can “sing” against the string on some agraffes. So, we replace them and go through it again. With the polishing method there is no garbage to push into a lip. Only a smooth, nearly frictionless surface with a better shape. Worth the two hours labor. But of course, I make our slave labor do that stuff <G>. Regards, Jim That's the point. Is it possible to get the capo as clean as the agraffe, and is it necessary? Don't we all pretty much agree that the extra polishing to the agraffe is rendered null as soon as the new wire is pulled to tension with the wire serving as a burnisher of sorts and distorting the new beautiful work just performed? Jeff Isn’t the inside of the agraffe just a “mini v-bar”? Best, Jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100805/c94f598d/attachment.htm>
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