Music wire?

[Sam Salvati]

Heard it was 1095, any truth behind this?

 

[Matthew Gregory]

I heard you could use it on musical instruments!


...couldn't resist, buddy!

How's the job-job type of job treating ya?

 

[Bruce Bump]

I think it is. It sure makes good coil springs for auto's

 

[A C Richards]

Yup 1095.. Unless it is bronze guitar strings....

 

[B Finnigan]

1085 according to the junkyard steel charts.

 

[jdm61]

I have heard of some guys taking old nickel plated (as opposed to pure nickel wrap) electric guitar strings and making guitar string damascus. I suspect it would take a bunch of strings and a bit of 1084 powder to do it.

 

[Sam Salvati]

I heard you could use it on musical instruments!


...couldn't resist, buddy!

How's the job-job type of job treating ya?

LOL! I am LOVING it, best job I have ever had, including working for myself. It's almost not even like a job-job type of job either! They carry O1 and W1, as well as 4140 and 1045 (for hammers) in QUITE a few different sizes, as well as all kinds of other goodies. NICE to get payed too without having to get the run around from customers either.


Thanks Bruce, very useful to get good steel in such TINY sizes!

 

[AcridSaint]

I believe Brent is right, although I was thinking it was 1086.

Here's some music wire on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Wire-0-0005in-Straightened-Length/dp/B000M4Q33W

This PDF also lists music wire as 1085:
www.tech.plym.ac.uk/sme/desnotes/Springs1.pdf

 

[Sam Salvati]

I get it from a local hobby shop, they have that and MANY various sizes of brass and aluminum tubing(HEAVEN for mosaic pin makers), as well as small sheets of brass and aluminum.

 

[deker]

According to McMaster-Carr, the stuff they sell is 1095.

-d

 

[B Finnigan]

it's not surprising that it would be made from both.

 

[Sam Salvati]

Brent thanks for that chart, I don't so much take those as the gospel rule, more of as a rough approximation.

 

[Will Leavitt]

I miss our local hobby stores (including having worked for one) stupid mail order has driven them out of business.

 

[Rody]

I have heard of some guys taking old nickel plated (as opposed to pure nickel wrap) electric guitar strings and making guitar string damascus. I suspect it would take a bunch of strings and a bit of 1084 powder to do it.

A couple of months I took some old strings from my bassguitar (nickelplated stainless), chopped them into 2-3" lengths, made a bundle, wrapped them with wire and clamped them in a vise. I then used my oxy-acetylene torch to fill the bundle with brass brazing rod (borax coated). Thoroughly heated it to penetrate all the layers in the strings (the thicker strings like the low B string have 3 layers). Afterwards I ground it, polished it and blued the stainless with a torch. In cross-section you get flower-like patterns and along the sides you get some really cool Giger/Alien type vertebrae patterns. I gave the piece to a knife-maker friend of mine without taking any pics, but I will repeat it in the future to make some bolsters. I got the idea from the guy that did bronze damascus and thought: what the hell, I can do that! It worked great.

Cheers rody

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

That chart shows "cold rolled" as 1070. That ain't right. More likely 1018.

 

[mete]

The thicker wire will be lower carbon ,maybe 1065, and the finer wire will have higher carbon such as 1095. www.brownells.com has various wire for spring making.