Problems

Different Materials

Materials; Metal, Plastic and Sandpaper

With lots of new ideas, I went back down to the workshop a made the head, I managed to to successfully attach the peg and get it working. I trialled this with the trial metal piece on top, and it worked but not the way I had hoped, it made a rather annoying fingernail on chalkboard type sound. I then trialled this with plastic and wood covered in sandpaper. They did the same thing, the sounds were noticeably different but just as annoying. Also it wasn't as smooth a transition between materials as I had imagined, it would continually get caught and just bend the string to the side.

Adding Foam

I took Paul's advice which I discussed with Byron who agreed, and I added Foam. I cut pieces of foam for either side of the neck as it slid through the slider. I used glue so that it would hold, At first I thought it had worked rather well and in many ways it may have worked out for the better. The Foam helped center the slider which could still move side to side as the foam would just compact. But to make adjustments I had taken off the string and when I put it back on a tightened it, the foam I discovered muffled the sounds that the slider made when it actually scraped along the string.