Not all fluorocarbon fishing lines make good strings. I've had pretty poor luck with Berkley's house brand of fluorocarbon fishing line. Under continuous tension (e.g., as an instrument string), I have found it to fray and lose intonation along its length. I've had much better luck with P-Line CFX flourocarbon fly fishing leader material. It's much more expensive than large spools of line, but still much less expensive than an equivalent length of gut string. Most of the fluorocarbon made for fishing you'll find will be ca. 0.5 mm or thinner.
Best, Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Stathis Skandalidis > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:04 PM > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Carbon strings? > > Dear Arto, > according to Makoto Tsuruta and his intuitive site > [1]http://www.crane.gr.jp/CRANE_Strings/strings_linesE.html it's the > same material. > As I am living on an island, it is quite easy at least for me to find > fishing line. > Regardless your place of residence there are many on-line shops where > you could order it from. > A 25 m spool Seaguar Grand Max fishing line 0.405mm diameter costs > around 10 euros. That spool could give you 3 dozens of strings for a > g-lute, not a bad business at all! > Stathis > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 11:31:23 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Carbon strings? > 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 > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.crane.gr.jp/CRANE_Strings/strings_linesE.html > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
