Michael and everyone, Diagrams for tying frets can be found on David Van Edwards's site - the double fret knot is toward the bottom of the page. David's illustration is based on Mace's description of the process.
<http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/fretknot.htm> Better yet, find a viol player to demonstrate. By the way, Mace's discussion of fret tying gave me the impression that the single fret was something of a new innovation at that time. Does anyone know of other writings that would either support or contradict this? -Carl Carl Donsbach http://www.unm.edu/~ctdbach/Lute/Building_Lute/Building_Lute_Main.htm Confounded eyeglasses... where'd I leave 'em this time...? 8:-{> --On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:16 PM -0600 Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just took some gut about .90mm and sanded down a length long enough to > be the double side in back ( towards the nut). > In about 1 minute, I was able to sand off .10 mm. From .90mm down > to .80mm. The sanding changes the color of the gut so you can see where > you've thinned it down. I used 220 emery paper, or as we call it in the > lute world..... 220 grit shark's skin. It's nice because you don't > damage the gut in anyway. I mean as far as delaminating the string. or > the twist etc. I folded over the paper made a cradle with it, and > sanded evenly the whole diameter of the string. > Now, if only I can figure out how to tie a double fret! > Michael Thames > www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chad McAnally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lute" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 7:30 AM > Subject: Re: Built-in action? Double frets > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
