Breezy said:

The word frayling has not emerged, is that what you guys call clawhammer? cos it aint that for me.

Pete Seeger did it good

I'm not QUITE sure what you mean by the above, but I'll say that Pete Seeger did/does not normally do either frailing or clawhammer. He did/does a three-finger up-pick, which he calls "the basic strum".

I agree, however, "Pete did it good", whatever "it" is. Wonderful stylistic judgment, as well as facility.

The difference between frailing and clawhammer (for those who will admit there is ANY difference) is that clawhammer tends to make a lot more use of double-thumbing, drop-thumbing, hammer-ons, and pull-offs, with less reliance on the continual sounding of the thumb-string.

Dave Oesterreich