£130 for strings!

Antique_Guitars

This is what happens when you attempt to reconstruct a ludicrous 23 string 17th century instrument that requires all the strings to be natural gut. :-(

octatonic

You're an idiot!

This is a good thing.

:o3

Antique_Guitars

This instrument had been very costly!

it cost me £80 just for the ebony strips that go in between the ribs...........

octatonic

Antique_Guitars said:

This instrument had been very costly!

it cost me £80 just for the ebony strips that go in between the ribs...........

Youch!

Any pics yet?

JookyChap

Yeaah - I could double the value of some of my guitars.

Definitely would like to see fotos too, and  I think this sort of bobbins should be blogged sunshine, especially the cat-gutting part. Cat fotos always go down so well on here.

ICBM

Ouch. Although I think we're just lucky that guitar strings are so cheap... when my daughter took up viola I got some strings for that and they were a bit eye-watering. All the classical instrument strings seem to be - I remember a double bass player I know saying a decent set cost a couple of hundred quid or something... although they do at least last for quite a few years.

Ebony is very pricey too. Way back in the mid 90s I had a mad idea that I could build a sort of Steinberger bass copy in solid ebony... until I found out the price of a piece of instrument grade ebony that big, and gave up rapidly! £450 if I remember right, and that was twenty years ago.

WezV

you wouldn't find a billet big enough now

Antique_Guitars

Aye pictures and it's own thread at the end of the month if I finish it..................

Hand in date is 29th August :-(

Misterg

ICBM said:

I remember a double bass player I know saying a decent set cost a couple of hundred quid or something...

One that I know (sort of - he's in bands with @bluechargeboy ) just paid £130 for one string! :-O

Makes leaning your bass against a wall and watching it slide down an expensive proposition.

bluechargeboy

Misterg said:

One that I know (sort of - he's in bands with @bluechargeboy ) just paid £130 for one string! :-O

Makes leaning your bass against a wall and watching it slide down an expensive proposition.

Aye, silver-on-gut orchestral strings, it's a different world! You don't want to know how much bows cost...

Antique_Guitars

Well when VAT was added and the cost of the smaller gauge strings I had to buy from Poland then the total is an eye watering £175!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!