The gut frets dress the fingerboard of the lute. One could use, of course, all sorts of materials. I'm holding out for quantum frets, that change temperament when you look at them.
But the gut frets are the best. I use gut strings for the frets, not fretgut, as they sound better to me. dt At 01:02 AM 11/20/2007, you wrote: >On the French list, Carlos Gonzalez, luthier, says he always frets a >lute with the same material as its strings: gut with gut, nylgut with >nylgut, carbon with carbon, etc. >He first sand-papers the carbon. The difficulty is tightening the >fret sufficiently. >This does seem a logical way of going, as I imagine that carbon >strings must "bite" through gut frets at quite a pace. >Regards >Anthony > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
