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Permalink Reply by James Harrison on March 22, 2018 at 9:30am

Those look to me like parts from the little clamp thingies that have a U-shaped bracket, 2 sliding crossbars (one of which you can see here) and 2 nuts. I find them around chain or in miscellaneous hardware at my local ACE store.

Sorry for all the highly technical jargon.

Permalink Reply by Jonas Fredslund Hansen on March 22, 2018 at 9:42am

With your description and the picture below, I'll most definitely be able to find it. Thanks a lot!

Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 22, 2018 at 9:34am

wire rope clips . 

Permalink Reply by Jonas Fredslund Hansen on March 22, 2018 at 9:42am

That seems to be exactly the ones I'm looking for. Thanks a lot!

Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 22, 2018 at 9:44am

cheers ;-)

Permalink Reply by James Harrison on March 22, 2018 at 9:51am

There ya go, wire rope clips. I misremembered there being a second bracket piece. I've used these things all over the place, but never on wire rope. Very handy. I can't wait to see your CBG with the key in place.

Permalink Reply by Jonas Fredslund Hansen on March 22, 2018 at 9:56am

Yeah, I'll post some pictures when it's done.

The problem, however, is always to translate the names into Danish and find a store that sells it. But I think I managed to do both.

Thanks again to both of you!

Permalink Reply by Gus K on March 25, 2018 at 2:20am

One thing to keep in mind if you mount the key perpendicular like in the pics how will you get the intonation right?  If you look closely at the first pic you'll see that the low string rides higher (making it longer) than the  high string.  You need to carefully file the depth of the grooves to get it right.

Permalink Reply by Scott Schoepf on March 29, 2018 at 5:26am

You can also place the “cradle” (for lack of the proper name) on the box without drilling holes and get positioning right for intonation then mark and drill.