Re: ATM Wiring Spiders

[Doug Tanaka <dtanaka@seanet.com>]

At 08:02 AM 2/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> > .010", although it's very hard to measure accurately because it's not
>hard,
> > like wire.
>
>Have you previously used guitar stainless steel wire?(.10-.20)
>If so how  would you compare them?


Frank,

I have not used stainless steel guitar wire for a spider, but I have played 
a steel string, acoustic guitar for 30 years.  Based on my experience with 
breaking strings or just replacing them through the years, I would guess 
the 452 Plus is much stronger on a straight pull and more forgiving of 
being kinked over a sharp edge, but no hard evidence for this.  The biggest 
difference would be in the stretch department, especially with new guitar 
strings.  When replacing new strings on a guitar, I always tune them and 
then stretch them out by pulling in the middle and retuning.  I'll repeat 
this several times until the note stays about the same and then it will 
pretty much stay in tune, requiring only slight tweaking in the 
future.  The 452 Plus is stretched taut enough to play a high note, but 
when stretched, seems to retain the same note.

As I write this, it occurs to me a simple experiment would be to replace a 
guitar string with 452 Plus to see if there really is a difference, since 
the guitar is obviously more sensitive to sound, and the added length of 
the string would make it more sensitive to stretch.  In essence, reversing 
the comparison from a focus on spider performance to performance on a 
guitar.  If there is interest in this I will restring my guitar and post 
the results.

Doug