Suzanne Angevine wrote: > My first observation is that all you who have done this a bunch don't > remember how hard it was at first to "get it". And my second observation is > this. while none of you admitted to working the end of the gut a little to > make it possible to tighten the knot well, I bet you all do it, if > unconsciously while getting that first loop in there and the end burned.
Tying frets is actually the only task involving tying strings, rope or thread that I have NOT found difficult. Your problem is that you think you need to tie the knot tightly, and this is what made an easy operation difficult. It's a simple knot, loose enough to run the other end of the string through. Then you pull the long end, which should tighten everything (you do have to leave enough extra length on the loop of the knot so that it tightens rather than the end pulling through the loop and the whole thing coming apart), and then you apply the flame-thrower, and then you move the fret into position. Working the gut to tie a tighter knot is worse than useless. I hope the above is intelligible; I don't know knot terminology, and I'm not keen to learn it. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
