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Step 3ASSEMBLY OF TUNER/STRINGS
1Tuner- after all tuner screws are squeezed closed loop start them in the predrilled holes.Use a pliers if needed to screw in.They must be screwed all the way to the collars. Then two more revolutions.The extra revolutions loosens the screw slightly for ease of future tuning.
2-Stringing- cut each string as needed about 2 inches longer than shown in the diagram.Make a crimp at one end using a crimp tube and pliers.Then tie a simple knot and pull tight. then rotate the string counter-clockwise two times around the top of the collar and pull string down into the anchor holes. Grab with a hemostat on the under side. Pull the string and pluck it to within one note less than the desired note.Lock the length on the underside with the hemo.Then place a u-crimp next to the locked hemo. Then remove hemo. Finally re-tune by rotating clockwise the tuner screw. This is then repeated for the remaining Note strings.Cut off the excess.
2-Stringing- cut each string as needed about 2 inches longer than shown in the diagram.Make a crimp at one end using a crimp tube and pliers.Then tie a simple knot and pull tight. then rotate the string counter-clockwise two times around the top of the collar and pull string down into the anchor holes. Grab with a hemostat on the under side. Pull the string and pluck it to within one note less than the desired note.Lock the length on the underside with the hemo.Then place a u-crimp next to the locked hemo. Then remove hemo. Finally re-tune by rotating clockwise the tuner screw. This is then repeated for the remaining Note strings.Cut off the excess.
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How do you get the strings to stay on the cup screws? I'm having trouble getting mine to stay. I'm using the plastic strings - the same type that you illustrated on the materials page. I crimped one end and it just doesn't stay when I wrap it around the screw.
If I have it right - you crimp the string around the looped screw.
And it comes off. right> This can happen when the open looped screw is not closed completely with the pliers. A small slit opening remains and the string can slip thru.
My solution for that is to get a larger jawed plier and really close that slit up.
On the other hand if it is still a problem I tie the sting with a small crimp on the end in the loop then dress down the string while rotating the string counter-clock-wise. This will be fine if the slit end is opposite the winding around at the collar of the screw. Tension will hold it away. Alternately you can dropplet a small amount of goop glue on the slit and let it harden before you attach the string.
If you follow the diagram th string length is indicated as shown. The length is not too important for the device to generate the notes because the note generation is mainly adjusted by tensioning or pulling on the string end in construction then tying it or anchoring it down .
The first or lowest note string is about 3 in long . But it is not critical on length . It can be 2.5 to 3.5 inches and it will work ok.
The string itself as cut from the spool is about 3.5 inches long . It can be up to 4 in. long.and is long enough to make a anchoring and twoturns around the tuning screw after it is stretched to the desired note. Notice -you have to pull on the string and it will stretch about 1 to 5 inches beyond thebase anchor point. to get to the proper note.. In the stretched condition the string is then anchored but its length will remain as shown about 3. inches at point A note.
Hope this helps...
Here we used stretch strings for this 3 string Mini. good luck