> From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:57:28 -0700 > To: ron fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Small Portuguese Guitarra ca. 1890 >
> > What material is the binding made of -- which cleans up so bright-white when > French polished? Humor me if you would. Take a pin or needle, grab it with pliers, hold the tip of the needle in the flame of a lighter till red-hot, and then press it into the binding somewhere discrete. Does it melt? Smell like burning plastic? Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
