Stradivari made guitars? 😲😲😲😲
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I'm just hoping I can find single nylon strings of the needed gauges, price of gut string sets is heart attack territory
PhredE
Friend of Leo's
No affiliation, just really good results by your truly in the past.. StringsByMail has a pretty good offering of individual classical/nylon type strings available. I've bought lots of D'addario and some LaBella in the past.
For basses (wound) strings:
Standard silverplayed wound over nylon filament core. Gauges 0.019 through 0.06 available.
For unwound, there are even more options. You may have to search deep in the menu/products to find brands that offer a good selection of conventional nylon singles and the like. But, rest assured, there ARE there. You might even check their specialty sets to see if they have most (but probably not all) of the gauges needed.
Prices are reasonable, although sometimes a few other sellers beat them on certain items.
FYI / Hope that helps.
For basses (wound) strings:
Standard silverplayed wound over nylon filament core. Gauges 0.019 through 0.06 available.
For unwound, there are even more options. You may have to search deep in the menu/products to find brands that offer a good selection of conventional nylon singles and the like. But, rest assured, there ARE there. You might even check their specialty sets to see if they have most (but probably not all) of the gauges needed.
Prices are reasonable, although sometimes a few other sellers beat them on certain items.
FYI / Hope that helps.
Was just checking them out
, unfortunately you really have to pay attention. Labella offers a so called Baroque Set but alas it really isn't, it's for a Baroque Romantico
, still a little work to do but almost there 
Dowels or skewers?
Shish kabobs skewers, may have to change to something else. For sure need to use a board to clamp them because the clamps mashed them somewhat. I'm probably using Nygut strings so maybe dowels, I'm a little stumped
I'm using early Baroque rentrant tuning which will help. I was going to get Labella but all they offer is baroque Romantico from later on and I know they'd do a custom set but damn the cost. I could get gut from Italy cheaper
Shish kabobs skewers, may have to change to something else. For sure need to use a board to clamp them because the clamps mashed them somewhat. I'm probably using Nygut strings so maybe dowels, I'm a little stumped
I'm using early Baroque rentrant tuning which will help. I was going to get Labella but all they offer is baroque Romantico from later on and I know they'd do a custom set but damn the cost. I could get gut from Italy cheaper
would nylon strings be similar enough..I mean you are making some tradeoffs to the guitar already.
That they would, but I have yet to find a dependable source for individual plain end nylon strings
, but I'm still looking 
Second coat of Tru-Oil 
, already have a bag of 1/8" birch dowels reserved until my check arrives 
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Took a set of baroque rentrant strings and wrote down the sizes (metric naturally
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Damn, the first string a .019? I'm not sure I've ever seen a nylon.019
, already have a bag of 1/8" birch dowels reserved until my check arrives .Took a set of baroque rentrant strings and wrote down the sizes (metric naturally
).Damn, the first string a .019? I'm not sure I've ever seen a nylon.019
LeftFinger
Friend of Leo's
What would Stradivari have used ? cat gut?
The hard part would be convincing the cat to give some up.
The hard part would be convincing the cat to give some up.
