Hi Peter, If it's one of those expensive roped gut basses you can just wrap the excess around the pegbox. I noted Jacob Herringmann doing this in 2000 and since then I've gotten a lot more milage (ropage?) from them. There are some things to remember and I'll give you some notes on this but I'm at work and I'm not sure this pertains to your case yet.
Otherwise for smaller strings, leaders are your best bet. Heat a small ball on the end of each gut and use overhand knots (or figure eight knots) that pass through each other. Gut-to-gut works great but nylon-to-gut can get frustrating. All the best, Sean On Thursday, May 22, 2008, at 10:04AM, "Peter Nightingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear All, > >A while back --July 2004! How on earth did I remember that?-- there was >an exchange about cutting strings to get two for the price of one. Ed >Dubrow wrote about Nylgut "I can get two strings as long as I can tie an >extra length to reach the peg." I have a similar situation with gut: 3 >meters of gut and a string length of 140.5 cm. Not enough for two strings, >but too much to throw away. > >Am I inviting trouble if I attempt Ed's barrel/blood knot with gut? How >about figure eight knot >(<http://www.animatedknots.com/fig8boating/index.php>) at the bridge or >peg end to save precious centimeters? > >Thanks, >Peter. > >the next auto-quote is: >One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to >make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, >then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. >(Steven Weinberg) >/\/\ >Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 >Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 >University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
