Right, you can not really see winding in the photo. What holds the strings together, actually, are the bulges at the ends of gut strings (when you burn the gut, it distends)- like in a well known way of tying a single fret. When you wrap them with some sort of thread and treat it with super glue, a hard sleeve is created, which does not let the bulges to slide through.
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:45:07 +0900 Ed Durbrow <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't wait to try this. This looks like it could get another cm or so > out of a string. The strings are overexposed in the photo but I guess > you just put the two ends together and lay a bead of super glue along > the common boarder??? > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
