> Hi Wolfgang, > > > > The nut on each of my lutes looks like ivory or bone - pure white.
there are superdense plastics witht he same look. You can distinquish by smell, disengage the nut and make a scratch on the underside where i wont show or disturb the fit. > I don't know their gauges. I have a micrometer but it's in > thousands-of-an-inch rather than mm; 1 in= 25.4 mm use excel spreadsheet to convert. A metric micrometer is calibrated differently from an imperial one, be most careful taking readins from it. I prefer to use a slide caliper myself, less likely to squash the string for a false reading. When measuring strings avoid places that are prone to distortion - near the nut, near the knot. If you have a goodly length you can make loops and measure several parts simultaneously (less likely to squish). > I think I need to purchase one in mm. thats the way they are sold mostly. The conversion is easy. _ Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
