Wax on, Wax off

The finish is now , ...er, finished! The belly got three coats of my home made wax, and then I finished the whole instrument with Renaissance Micro Crystalline Wax. This leaves a very nice silky finish, and it is claimed to provide excellent protection from fingerprints etc.

I am going to use Aquila nylgut strings for all the seven courses, as shown below. There seems to be a million different ways to string up a lute, so this is just a guess as to what might work.

1	g'	0.42 Nylgut
2	d'	0.54 Nylgut
2	d'	0.54 Nylgut
3	a	0.68 Nylgut
3	a	0.68 Nylgut
4	f	0.85 Nylgut
4	f	0.85 Nylgut
5	c	1.12D Nylgut wound with copper wire
5	c	1.12D Nylgut wound with copper wire
6	g	0.73 Nylgut
6	G	1.45D Nylgut wound with copper wire
7	d	0.85 Nylgut
7	D	1.65D Nylgut wound with copper wire

The rest of the work will be 'setting up' the strings, nut and gut frets.