Strate Mate...Was Remedial String Leveling

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Ed,
Yes, as the topic seems to suggest in the word Remedial, not fine work.
The tool will take away most of the non-parallelness of the strings, but at
the same time removes some of the elasticity of the string, limiting the
amount of movement available to compensate for misdrilled agraffes. A catch
22, Save some work, make your work harder <g>
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
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>
> <<For fine leveling though, well lets say that I have my own negative
> thoughts. A little off from plumb and the whole thing gives tilted
results.>>
>
> Greetings,
>   I haven't found this to be much of a problem.  If the strate-mate is
> lifting the strings .125"-.150",  the final alteration of the string
height is about
> .025"-.050" at most.  If the tool is out of plumb by .020", the out of
plumb
> resulting at the string height is hard to measure.
>    That said, I don't use the tool for mating hammers to strings, just to
> save work as I take out the majority of the curvature as it leaves the
agraffe or
> capo.
>   For final leveling, the individual treatment of the strings is really
the
> only way to go.
> Regards,
> Ed Foote RPT
>
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