Pleasure Ilke.

Doesn't really matter what you use to make it, just go with what you're most comfortable with.

I myself, would be inclined to use either the cv or ep curve tool and bevel plus. I forget which is which - I'd use the one that uses the verts as influences, not as points throught which the line must pass. I'd make the output nurbs, adjust to my satisfaction then convert to polys.

As for the strings, I'd go with nurbs cylinders myself. Fairly low in control data needed to represent them yet still nice and round. Although, if you extruded a circle along an ep or cv curve, it'd make coiling them up around the things you tighten them with a lot easier. (man, it's been longer than I thought)

Yeah, I know! I was just such a lazy little shit when I was 14. Everything else I could do, I did without effort. It's a shame really, but never mind I'll do beter out of computers anyway..

S.