Paul, I pushed "send" before seeing your post. If you experiment with some polished agraffes vs. new untouched you'll see that it really does seem to deform less. I'm sure you know that, but it's been 5 years since you showed me this method and I've seen much less "distorting" of the holes. Maybe some more of your good pictures will help. (Maybe I've got too much time on my hands! <G>) Regards, Jim Busby From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:58 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring... In a message dated 8/5/2010 4:24:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tannertuner at bellsouth.net writes: 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? As much as we all agree that, as soon as a wire is rendered under tension under the capo that the "perfect" contour erodes. So why bother at all, Jeff? My answer is, and always has been, that if we don't start from as close to a perfect condition, knowing that it will degrade, how will we know how it might sound. I don't for a moment think you are arguing lack of quality, but we spend inordinate amounts of time on bridges, and tuning temperaments, knowing that they'll degrade almost as, and as soon as, we finish them. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100805/5764826a/attachment.htm>
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