On Thu, 22 May 2008, Sean Smith wrote: > > 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. Sean,
Yes, I'm talking about expensive gut basses and I like your keep-it-in-one-piece idea, because it avoids the scenario from hell in which I cut a perfect, long string in two only to find that both halves have become equally useless. It seems that your suggestion only works if I have enough dangling excess gut so that the part that connects to the peg does not have to become part of the vibrating string after the string breaks, because I suspect that the part that wraps around the peg will be damaged an weakened. With 3 meters of gut to begin with and a vibrating string length of 140.5 cm it should work, but I have to check the details and who knows what's in your notes ... Thanks, Peter. > > 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 >> >> > > the next auto-quote is: In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death. (Francis Crick) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
