The company that used to make it (and I presume they still do) is in Japan, and called, "Seaguar".
At 03:31 PM 6/7/2010, wikla wrote: >Dearest lute gang, > >one question about the "carbon" string material (=high density hydrocarbon >polymer): > >I have been using it much, but I have always ordered it from lute string >makers. But as far as I know, this material was developed for a non lute >world (fishing?). So, does anyone here really know, if the lute string >"carbon" and the fishing line "carbon" are the same thing and the same >quality? If yes, please let me know, where to get this quality "fishing >carbon"? I guess the fishers order their stuff in 100's of meters, and to >me a couple of meters is the maximum per one string. In the fisher's way, >those "unpackaged" strings could be _very_ economical to us lutenists? > >Arto > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute
