Where to get 1/8" sheet mild steel laser/water jet cut?

[HankMcSpank]

Very nice work, I'll be your first customer.. I want one

You'd be my second - on the strength of those ropey videos alone (which were for nothing more than showing my progress to a related Guitar forum) I've got an Italian chap who's taking a leap of faith & going to buy one off me (only because he's a niche requirement that can't be fulfiulled by existing commercial sustainer offerings!)

It's small beer at the moment (my hourly rate must be about 10p for what I'll be making vs the effort I've put in, but hey, from little acorns blah blah)

Just an idea but could you make up the thickness with laminations of thinner steel like some transformer chassis's, That way you can find the optimum thickness. Also if it was thin enougth could it then be pressed?

That's a reasonable proposal...and I'd considered it - but what's driving me towards 3.2mm more than anything is the availability of pre made Korean ABS 'blade' bobbins with an 1/8" 'blade' slot! (basicallly cutting bobbins on a dodgy homemade CNC takes forever...therefore if I'm ever to sell these in number I need a quicker way). It may well be that I can indeed go thinner, but additionally the blade needs a magnet on the bottom....& I need some amount of physicaly surface bottom area to attach the magnets to. (I don't have the luxury of normal pickup 'depth' to attach a hulking great ceramic magnet to as they do with blade pickups)

If some one can make the former I'll happilly press you out as many as you need. 10 ton Hydraullic press with foot operated pneumatic pump is very quick.

That's a fantastic offer - and I'd have to say a big high five to you all out there, for without one shadow of a doubt, this is the most helpful forum I've ever had the pleasure of being a meber of :clap:

As it goes, I don't know much about formers...how they're made., cost, limitations ...but it's something I'd pondered the other day & need to look into.

Fair point. dose the tuning not suffer from the pull tho?

Surprisingly no - because you're pulling & releasing in sympathy with the string's natural resonance.

Bye for now...