Seating strings

[Ron Nossaman]

> Have you provided details of your notching machine?  If so I somehow 
> missed it.

Not yet - I'll get there.


> I still think bridge pins could use some attention.  Something harder 
> and with a slippier interface with steel.  Perhaps solid nickel, rather 
> than the nickel plated whatever that we have now.  I don't know how this 
> would affect the tone or the string wear rate.
> 
> Phil F

Better material sure couldn't hurt, but stabilizing (petrifying) the 
cap to minimizing the vertical movement of the string on the pin 
will take care of a fair amount of pin wear. Illustration? Pull pins 
from an old bridge and compare front pins with back pins.
Ron N