Members Dr Sunshine Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 anyone smelt their own metals and stuff yet? whats the best ore to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mumford Posted May 4, 2006 Members Share Posted May 4, 2006 I know you're making a joke, but I knew a guy who had a string winding machine and made his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Like many things in DIY-land, it's much cheaper to just BUY the darned things... but saving money isn't really what DIY is all about. It's more about a fun project, the satisfaction of building it yourself (and knowing HOW TO FIX IT if it should happen to die on you - don't discount the value of that!), as well as the ability to customize and build what you specifically want. But buying a string winder and making your own strings? That takes it to new extremes of "not cost effective or worth the time and hassle" IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aclarke Posted May 5, 2006 Members Share Posted May 5, 2006 If you've got a double locking trem, you could get away with buying spools of "musical instrument wire" from a wire manufacturer. I looked into this a few years ago when I came across the stuff in a vendor's catalogue. It worked out to be around $0.50 per complete string change (all six strings). I couldn't be arsed though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hyperstationjr Posted May 5, 2006 Members Share Posted May 5, 2006 Once strung up a guitar with Galvanized steel wire, probably 1/8th inch thick? maybe a little less, don't remember... I tried to tune it... it was real fun for a while but really it just made a "BFFRAAATT" noise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phaeton Posted May 5, 2006 Members Share Posted May 5, 2006 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Like many things in DIY-land, it's much cheaper to just BUY the darned things... but saving money isn't really what DIY is all about. True! Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe But buying a string winder and making your own strings? That takes it to new extremes of "not cost effective or worth the time and hassle" IMO. Also true. But someday I should dig out the pics of the fishing line/weedeater cord string winder I made out of Lego when I was 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Also true. But someday I should dig out the pics of the fishing line/weedeater cord string winder I made out of Lego when I was 15 I have more problems with weedeaters than I care to admit, and I hate dealing with winding line - if you ever go into production on that, let me know - I'll buy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phaeton Posted May 5, 2006 Members Share Posted May 5, 2006 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Also true. But someday I should dig out the pics of the fishing line/weedeater cord string winder I made out of Lego when I was 15 I have more problems with weedeaters than I care to admit, and I hate dealing with winding line - if you ever go into production on that, let me know - I'll buy one. Is there a future for self-wound nylon strings, though? Doubtful. The strings sounded horrible, the plank of rotten barn wood i put them on sounded horrible, and the piezo buzzer element I embedded into it for electrification sounded horrible. Oh, and I played it through a horrible sounding Quantum Terminator 25R. But it was fun! I've got plans for a Lego pickup winder that I drew up a number of years ago, I just haven't done anything with it yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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