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Anyone know where I might fight heating blankets that have more than a measly few inches of wire, and don't use a plug so wide I have to grind it off to get it to fit a typical router control? I know ... this seems like elementary stuff, but I can't seem to find such tools designed by someone that actually uses them and thus creates them for functional use. Thanks to anyone that has a lead! Frank Ford would knock these out of the park, if he made them. I want the string winder of bridge blankets.

I got my FB and FB extension and bridge heat blankets form from Keenovo https://keenovo.store/collections/standard-keenovo-silicone-heaters/products/keenovo-silicone-heating-blanket-musical-instrument-guitar-ukulele-mandolin-side-bending-wood-working-pvc-board-sheet-bending-heater
ebay outlet https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/keenovo?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
Work fine, I use my own shop built PID heat controller, not any of theirs.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I have them on my site

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Timely post - we just retired our bridge blanket for failure of the lead at the blanket. Our next will get pickled in high temp copper RTV and spliced to a 24" section of zip cord with overmolded plug.

I suspect the problem is that the manufacturers deliver the blankets with the leads in the raw - just the wire and jacket, without the molded cover seen on the larger blankets. Even with shrink-wrap, it makes the wire exit from the blanket a flex/failure & wear point. If some enterprising supplier would spec the same cord for the bridge, bridge plate, and fretboard blankets as they do for the full-sized blankets, we'd gladly pay more for a more durable, reliable product.

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