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Author: jhoyla
Date: 2017-04-03 11:40
Mike,
for years now I have been aligning the blades on the mandrel by feel alone. I use a tiny length of drinking-straw about half way up the blades to hold them closed, I then insert the staple and carefully work it inside to the tie length. You can tell by feel when the staple is flat with the blades.
I insert the mandrel until it is snug, and then grip the flat of the blades and twiddle the staple until I can feel that the flat of the staple is still aligned with the flat of the blades, and is more or less centered. I totally ignore the flat of the handle - it could be round, as far as I am concerned!
I wrap the first couple of wraps low and pretty loosely, start applying tension to the thread, and slowly close the blades evenly around the staple by rolling the reed up and down the thread while applying tension. A final check for alignment and then wrap over and hammer down on the tension all the way to the cork, and tie off.
J.
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