Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 23:12:37 -0500
Subject: Re: PUPT: Piano wire and hints on use.


Micro-Mark (www.micromark.com) sells a wire bender (#60346 $11.95) that
mounts in your bench vise and has a lever arm that you pivot to bend the
wire. With this I can get most shapes and bends that I need i rods up to
1/8" diameter. The only time I need to bang it in the vise - I have an
old beat to heck vise just for this - is when I need a bend very close
to the end. And I am talking about banging the short piece on the end
while the main section is held in the teeth of the old vise. This will
chew up the jaws on the vise, but that's what I use it for.

Cutting piano wire is done with a large wire cutter, about the size of a
large pair of pliers, but with sharp blade edges instead of the pliers
gripping jaws. You can round off a sharp cut end by turning it on a fine
sanding disk on a bench mounted power sander or, more slowly, by rubbing
it on a taped down sheet of sand paper. HTH!

Fred Greenspan
Traditional Puppeteer
http://home.earthlink.net/~greenspan/


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