{"id":220,"date":"2008-11-17T20:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2008\/11\/17\/the-sharpest-knife\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T18:37:48","slug":"the-sharpest-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2008\/11\/17\/the-sharpest-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sharpest Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally gotten my hands on some prototype fulcrum knives for the tremolo! They are made from stainless spring steel, which is hardened to a degree. Too hard, and it becomes brittle and breaks. Also important, the stainless steel it looks nice and comes in a 1 mm thickness so does not require so much machining.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0002.jpg\" alt=\".&lt;span class=\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the image above, I have not yet finished the base plates since I was eager to test them but I will send some off for finishing later in the week. The stainless steel will work out fine, although it did get some marks after a few hours of abuse. One additional benefit of my design is that the fulcrum will be replaceable. Note also the new logotype!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally gotten my hands on some prototype fulcrum knives for the tremolo! They are made from stainless spring steel, which is hardened to a degree. Too hard, and it becomes brittle and breaks. Also important, the stainless steel it looks nice and comes in a 1 mm thickness so does not require so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}