equally ingenious, Ed - good idea. i've seen fixed fingerboards on instruments with spaces scalloped out between where the frets should be - in other words, the strip of wood rises at points where the frets should be and drops below between those points. anyone familiar with this option? ... a thin piece of hard wood with fixed nut, acting as a removable tastiera; secured to the neck, top and bottom so that knots of filament or drops of glue don't shed the skin between thumb and forefinger?
- bill --- Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 9:27 AM +0200 4/4/05, LGS-Europe wrote: > >What I do: > >- find a piece of insulated electricity cable of > the right tastini thickness > >(the individual wires within a telephone cable are > about right, if you can > >find the old-fashioned stiff ones) > > Ingenious. > > I'll describe what I do, just for another option. > I take a small piece of fret gut with a diameter a > little larger than > the 1st fret and rub it against sand paper so that > it is flat on the > bottom. Then I glue it with white glue behind the > first fret under > the 4th course. > > cheers, > -- > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
