Toobie, as always, your input is most appreciated :grin:. The yoke suggestions got me thinking... I have thought of the thumbscrews already. For one thing, I made them myself with normal bolts and a washer soldered on the head at a 90 degrees angle and then filled with solder (and then filed, sanded and lecquered, etc.). My inspiration to make them like that came from the screws on the sides of bandoneons (you know, that bellowed instrument to play tango - talk about thinking too far outside the box!). Anyway, the thing is... the washers I had at hand were far too small. Anyway, a change is on the cards as I agree with you that the thumbscrews are one of the most eyecatching features of old school ribbon mics.
Tomorrow morning I'll pay a visit to the diy warehouse. I am planning to buy some length of iron channel, a shape like this: Ll if I can find it. Here is how I intend ot rework the "machine" of my mic: the inside faces of the channel should be 5 or 5.5 mm, which is where I plan to put the new magnets. The channels, given their shape, would also grab a pvc block on either end (i.e. top and bottom of the mic, where the ribbon attaches), thus being a most logical shape to use as a frame (do you picture what I mean?).
As for the thumbscrews, I'll keep looking around, as I'm also considering potential yoke replacements (only maybe...). At the moment I'm like a mad scientist, collecting rubbish and seeing ribbon mic thumbscrews and other esoteric things where normal people see, say, cooker knobs or drawer handles. Wait a minute! drawer handles... I think that's it! I'll look out for those at the warehouse tomorrow! I think I suffer of overactive imagination... :shock:
Anyway, thanks a lot for offering to host my pics! I'll surely have a few more this weekend, with a few more details. The pigtail assembly is looking sweet, by the way, you'll see.
