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Richard Jernigan
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Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: String turning (in reply to mark indigo)
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When I was a starving grad student, whoever went to Mexico stocked up on Leonidas strings, the cheapest in the western hemisphere, and sold them at cost to whoever needed them when they got back. If your strings got old toward the end of the month before your teaching assistant paycheck showed up, you took ‘em off, soaked them in soapy water for an hour, clean water for another hour, and hung ‘em up to dry. When you put them back on the strings sounded about 3/4 new, but the fun lasted less than a week. Lately I’ve been noticing Savarez Leonida (not Leonidas) at Strings by Mail. They’re $7.99 a set. Red cards are 11.99. I don’t remember any connection between Leonidas and Savarez back in the day. Savarez red cards were only for the wealthy owners of Barberos. Those Barberos went for as much as six or seven hundred bucks in the 1950s. They were cheaper in Spain, but who could get to Spain with enough money to buy a guitar and get back home if you were a grad student? Juan Pimentel in Mexico City was your man. You could ride the 2nd class train 890 miles from Nuevo Laredo to the Capital and back for $5.60 each way, buy your meals out the window off the train station platforms like the mamacitas with their families, and score a pro quality guitar off Pimentel for $300. Of course you had to go back 3 or 4 months later when the guitar was ready, but that was part of the fun. RNJ
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