>At 6:28 PM -0700 9/29/03, Joseph Garrett wrote: >Have you lost it?!!! Your suggestion to "...roll it over a 3-4 inch pulley....", will most certainly loosen the windings!!!! ... Not so, Joe. It fact I have a tool with two pulleys attached to a piece of wood specifically for such an activity. Works great! Don't know where I got the idea, either here on the list or from the journal, but it certainly beats tying an overhand knot in the dead bass strings and moving that up and down the string, or thumping away on a de-tensioned string. Keith, Thanks for "Taking me up short"!<G> I needed that!<G> Since I've not seen this device/technique, pictures would be nice.<G> Also, my apologies to Carl Meyer: "Sorry Carl! I just thought you had, (finally), gone, (completely), around the bend!" [G] Best Regards & awaiting pictures, Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares Are I
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