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To increase my stringing speed, I always start my crosses so that the weave is over the top of the first main string, similar to the tip from David Haskins’ that you published in August 2003. On two-piece string jobs I go one step further, starting my crosses on the first cross “outside” the last main—even if it is three or four crosses down from the head. I then have to pull through only enough string for the remaining top crosses, instead of the string for all the crosses, and I can easily establish my weave starting over the top, no matter what the skips are. After that, I tension and clamp from the top down as normal.

Alpha string sample pack (5 strings per pack) to:

Dan Kerr, MRT, Wiarton, Ont

Editor’s note: Installing your first cross farther down on the stringbed, and then filling in toward the top before tensioning, is more simple than trying to figure out whether to go over or under an “inner” main string so that you will be going over the outside mains for the rest of the crosses, but it does make it so that you have two “last crosses,” which are typically more difficult to weave.

From the March 2005 issue
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