Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:24:57 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
From: Joe <joe-AT-dunfee.com>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Marionette Stringing advice? slit the end, young man



>Its amazing, that after all the advances of the internet, that I 
>must revert to a method used in the days of the 300 baud BBS... 
>ASCII art.  Note this must be viewed with a mono-spaced font like courier.

Top view of the end of one controler

     Slot where string is tightly placed into to lock it into place
        |
       V
____________________
|     |
|
|    o  <-Hole for string to come up
|
|___|_____________

Note that we do the slot with a band saw, but perhaps we use thick 
enough string that it is acceptable.  Normally the side slots are 
deep enough to accept a few wraps of the string, and then we have a 
3rd slot at the end to do the final lock.

Joe Dunfee  joe-AT-dunfee.com
Gordonville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 

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