Thank you, Bob. I appreciate your response. When I read the tip to which I referred, I was a little concerned about that kink myself, having had personal experience with breaking brand new strings in such a fashion (right at the tuning post, of course....leaving too short a string to salvage in many instances). I wanted to pick other's brains to see if perhaps the tipster was on to something that I wasn't. I have always had trouble gauging with the naked, myopic eye how much slack to leave in the string to produce the correct number of windings around the post, so next time I'm due for a string change (around year 2007, or thereabouts *BG*) I'll try your "right hand method."

Regards, Neil