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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L]to magnetize chicks or to not magnetize chicks....that is the question? | | Date: | , April 5, 2007 19:18:36 (+0200) | | From: | don.hergert <don.hergert @.......net>
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As a long time banjo player, I also am very familiar with the chick-magnet
issue...
I have spent a lot of time and effort trying to magnetize my banjo parts for
this purpose. However, the metal parts on my old banjo are primarily brass,
making magnetizing this instrument very difficult if not impossible. Luckily
this banjo does have a fair amount of iron in the springs, washers and
ballbearings, and the few nuts and bolts, that hold the thing together.
So, as many of you have seen from previous discussions with me here, it was not
surprising that when I got my first real Dobro, it would be an old metal body
Dobro. Unfortunately, like my banjo, it also has turned out to be magnetically
dissapointing, the body aluminum, the coverplate brass, the cone aluminum, the
spyder and even the bridge on this old custom Rudy-workshop model, aluminum.
As Don Young said when identifying this Dobro, "What was Rudy thinking?" The
only iron content of this fretless instrument, perhaps with the exception of
the tailpiece and the tuners, is once again in the few nuts, bolts, pins and
assorted hardware that hold it together.
Both my old banjo and my old Dobro do have one major source of magnetism, that
being the steel strings. I do spend a significant amount of time magnetizing
them. For my Dobro I've even gone the extra step of magnetizing my steel
slide, which in effect replenishes the magnetism on the strings.
Alas, I fear my efforts have been futile though... Despite repeatedly
magnetically charging the few parts on these instruments that I can, I see no
evidence of them enhancing my image as a chick-magnet.
So, while mis-guided, I continue to try. Ironically (pun intended), the
chick-magnet concept has not been lost on my wife; however, when I've tried to
explain my chick-magnet efforts to her, she in the most deeply sincere voice
wishes me "Good luck!"
Best,
-- Don
reso-man@comcast.net wrote:
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> Being a reso-player alone, is chick magnet enough! Add purfling, and
things is gonna get outa control for sure. Of course if you already are
a chick, then your mileage will certainly var........oh forget it.
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> signed,
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> "Geeky"
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