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Kevin Tardevet said:

Heavy gauge would be perfect.
Also my bass is a 4/4 with 110cm string lengh.
Can you mesure it lengh so i can be sure that it fit to my bass ?
Thanks

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labravajazz said:

Ok, so I had a look at these - I have a couple of 3.5 and one 3.55 which would be the heaviest
They are unwrapped still in original packages but I opened this one so you can see. A bit hard to measure exactly as I couldn't stretch it right out but approximately 150 cms up to where the silver winding ends but then a length of plain gut there which I didn't measure
I'll take a photo View attachment 4323952View attachment 4323952

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DoubleMIDI said:

Well, I borrowed the Efranos to Hervé Jeanne, but basically I made the gut wet, made a knot in it and fiddle the braided nylon line through the middle hole of the knot. Then I made a (double?) knot the same way with the nylon line so that the gut string runs through it. Then fasten the knots and move them so that they touch each other. Let the gut dry and put the string on. It might slip a bit during tune up, but only to get the knots tighter. So do it slowly.
Be sure to make the second knot in the right turning direction so that the knots can sit most closely.

Wound gut always ends in naked gut or with a wide spread winding. I haven't tried that with gut but a different method worked with a high C synthetic core flat metal wound string:

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This is the same kind of knots, it each needed to be tightened maximally with pliers and the limit is a double knot, a triple one cannot be fastened enough. I needed several ones because the string still slipped with a single one. With several ones slipping of one distributed the frictional force to multiple knots and fastens the upper ones too. Leave some more string stick out of the uppermost knot as you see on the picture as the knot might slip about a cm during fastening. The synthetic core was too slippery to make a knot in it like with the gut strings. Also this thin synthetic string core could easily break if it got bended too much like in a knot. Keep in mind that it is a high C string and has a thinner core than the regular set.
That method might work on pure metal windings, but best on the silk spun parts or other rough surface. Maybe some thin rubber between string and knots would work catching a flat wound string, but there is always the risk stripping the windings from the core, specially if the knots are not maximally tightened.

Sorry for catching that thread, I should better post that in the string section.

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