At 03:54 AM 1/11/2005, Jon Murphy wrote: >Tim, > >Are you sure Nylgut is still nylon? And I don't quarrel here. As I >understand it Nylgut is a proprietary product of Aquila (Italy?). And as >Nylon is a patented formulation of DuPont the Nylgut must be a different >formulation. > >The question becomes whether Aquila has found a way to integrate the natural >gut fibers into the Nylon formulation, or if they have just found a new >formulation of the plastic. If it were the latter I'd think they would have >left the Nyl out of the name, assuming that DuPont still has the title to >the name. But then again the name might be public domain now and Aquila >using it to bounce off the Nylon reputation. But were I them, and found a >new totally plastic formulation I'd have called it Aquigut, or something. > >As a packrat I keep scraps for whatever, there is a test to try. I don't >have a micro scale for weight/unit (density), but if the Nylgut is absorbant >I should be able to observe that with a micrometer (which I do have) as it >would swell when not under stress.
Nylgut is entirely synthetic and I believe they are rather tight-lipped over exactly what it is. Dan Larson, maker of Gamut gut strings, seems convinced that they are some formulation of polypropylene, but I don't know what his source is. Best, E To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
