Would it adhere better to bone (or, shudder, ivory) than a hard plastic nut? Wood would be acceptable, too, I suppose. It might be that magic material to quickly build up a worn fret, too. Carefully done, of course. Sean
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:26 PM John Mardinly <[1]john.mardi...@asu.edu> wrote: Very cool. Dan Erlewine is just so full of cool tricks-he is amazing. A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. On Nov 28, 2019, at 4:16 PM, Steve Ramey <[1][2]stevera...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Don't know about dentist's "dentine", but here's a trick that may help. [2]The baking soda and super glue trick [youtube.png] The baking soda and super glue trick "Can a broken nut can be fixed with baking soda and super glue?" Lou, a singer here in Athens, Ohio, brought thi... HTH, Steve On Thursday, November 28, 2019, 05:06:59 PM EST, John Mardinly <[3][3]john.mardi...@asu.edu> wrote: I have seen a similar problem when moving to smaller diameter strings, especially if the nut was filed with jeweler's files giving it a âv' shaped profile . However, what is 'dentist's dentine', some sort of magic epoxy? A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. On Nov 28, 2019, at 1:32 AM, Anthony Hind <[1][4][4]agno3ph...@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: Could it perhaps be Leonard, that the grooves at your nut at 5C was set up for your thicker unisson strings. Something similar happened to me on my 11C lute, when I replaced Venice twine unissons on F4 with equivalent thinner loaded strings. I heard a definite rattle. I put the Venices back and the problem went away. However later on my 3A unisson HT gut strings a similar rattle appeared, I hadn't changed the diameter, but perhaps some wear had slightly widened the groove or the neck moved a little. I could have changed to slightly thicker strings, but a lute maker friend said he could lightly fill and raise the nut's groove with dentist's dentine. This did the trick, so this solution for changing to octaves could possibly work for you. On my 7C lute, on 5C, I have Venice twine unissons and like yourself, I have been thinking of moving to 1.00 Venice bass and 0.52HT octave, but I fear a similar problem will occur as the lute originally was set up for the unisons so with a wider 1.00mm groove Also, I imagine perhaps wrongly, that a 0,52 Ht gut string will last a lot less than a 1.00 Venice unisson. Am I wrong about that? Best wishes Anthony [1]Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone Le mercredi, novembre 27, 2019, 8:33 PM, Leonard Williams <[2][5][5]arc...@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> a à ©crit : I, too have had issues with octaves on the 5th course of my 8 course lute. I tried it several years ago, using an octave half the diameter of the bass (all in gut). But, whereas the octave g on 6th blended well with its bass, the octave c stood out, sounding jangly, almost as though I had a metal string on there. Perhaps it was poor (thumb-in in this case) technique? At any rate, I switched back to unison. 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