Larry Brown recommended getting beef bones (to use for lute nuts) from a pet store rather than from a butcher. The pet store versions (some of them, anyway) are already nice and clean and ready for use. Saves you the bother of having to boil them and what have you.
Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:49 PM To: 'lute-cs.dartmouth.edu' Subject: [LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make? On Sat, Jun 7, 2008, Guy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You can find Delrin at most plastics supply companies. I used to use it > occasionally to machine parts for lab apparatus. It's one of the easiest > plastics to work with, except for gluing (it's a close relative of Teflon, > but a lot harder). Check the Yellow Pages (or the equivalent in your > country). google (delrin sheet) is faster and lighter than that hoary old leg-shimming monster of a book, the following looks interesting to me - http://www.fortepiano.com/plectra_files/sheets.htm > Thanks for the tip, I'll try. Somebody else came up with cow's bone. Why > cow and not, say, sheep, pig or - why not - ancestor or slain enemy? the heavier the critter the denser the leg bone. Beef stew meat is one way to get cow leg bone, but see the butcher first if you have one available, those supermarket bones are cut a bit short for my taste. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
