Piano Wire

hrmm, bet you could get some interesting damascus patterns from a bunch of that.
 
George, not doubting you at all, as I've never swung a hammer yet(my fault, have open invite, just haven't made it down there. :) ) but don't quite get why you would burn out the carbon. I know lots of people make cable damascus, and I wouldn't think that piano wire would have any more problems then the strands in cable damascus, unless you use the wire for the highest notes, but with the lower wires, esp. the double wrap ones(core strand with another strand around it) I would think it'd work alright.

Man, it's really hard to type word strand, keep wanting to type strange. Which is generally appropriate to those of us around here. :)
 
Originally posted by indian george
You probably burn out all the carbon when making it into damascus.
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I don't think so.
Never tried damascus but I've read stuff. It seems to me very similar to cable damascus. After all cable damascus is made out of cable, and single strands are not much thicker than piano wire.
Point is, it's true when you take just one wire: it's so thin it would burn out in a jiffy, but when you put a whole bucnh of them together, carbon will burn from the external ones, but then ther'd be carbon migration from the internal strands.

It should be much like cable damascus then.
 
I say wrap them tight and enclose them in a cannister with powder metal. Should be very interesting to have cable and solid all in the same blade. The accordian cutting should add more excitment to the patterns There is no carbon loss or migration this way as a plus.
 
The over wrap on a lot of piano wire is a bronse alloy or a plated steel, now that might make some interesting damascus, but I would still stick with the thicker bass strings.
 
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