I always use a nice screw to strengthen the pegbox to neck joint as this is the way I was taught in lute building. What do other lute makers do? I am at the moment making a triple beg box for a baroque lute and am about to configure the screw and joint. Lutes always have a screw or nail at the neck block, so why not at the pegbox too? Sterling
Sent from my iPad > On Jul 27, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Charles Mokotoff <mokot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sean, > I'd love to see a picture of that if you can point at one? > > Anyone else having pictures to go with their various strap configurations, > feel free to chime in. > > > >> On Jul 27, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Sean Smith <lutesm...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Herbert, >> >> When I'm playing and wearing the strap, its pull is about 35 degrees away >> from the line of the neck (to the bridge). If you were looking straight at >> the belly, the strings would pull away to the left, to the rear and at an >> acute angle to the neck. The strings, after they bend around the nut, pull >> the pegox into the join at the neck at about 35 kg (338 N if I've read my >> StringCalc app correctly for my 6c). I can't see how the weight of the lute >> pulling on the pegbox from *any* direction will significantly compete with >> those 35 kg and its hide glue adhesive. The strap pulls from two strings: >> one placed near the join and one towards the other end of the pegbox and >> they pull, more or less, equally. >> >> Apparently I'm not understanding your observation. >> >> But fret not; I do worry a little. The endpin is only held in by friction >> (and a paper shim to give it the right diameter). I make sure _never_ to >> pull the strap from the bottom away from the lute! >> >> Sean >> >> >> >> On Jul 27, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Herbert Ward wrote: >> >> The force from the strap (to some extent) counters the force from the >> strings. The strings pull the pegbox in one direction, and >> the strap pulls it in more-or-less the opposite direction, so there >> is a cancellation effect. >> >> A strap at the pegbox would be much worse if it pulled in >> the same direction as the strings. >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
