When I made my own hurdy-gurdy, I made the tangents in two parts: First, I made a strip of wood with an appropriate (I hope) wedge cross-section. I scraped a channel in the wide edge. I cut this into my individual flags. Next I glued the flags onto pieces of thin dowel. That¹s it. I don¹t know if it would hold up to vigorous playing, but most of the stress presses the flag against the shaft. I guess a flat spot could be carved onto the shaft to receive the flag (without the channel).
This is my amateur solution. Regards, Leonard Williams On 6/26/11 11:28 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am restoring an old Nigout that needed a lot of work. After making a full > set of keys I am now at the point of making the tangents, of which I have > previously made many (probably on the order of a few hundred). I usually do > all the work by hand, sanding, cutting and filing the tangents to my needs. > The part that makes this work a labor is not the "flag" part of the tangent, > it is the post portion of the tangent that is so hard on my hands and fingers. > I am a traditionalist so I make full wood tangents (no screws) and I tend to > like to restore the instrument rather than update it, so no metal tangents > either. I currently use a metal plate with a set of holes drilled large to > small to size down the posts but I find this hard on my hands and very time > consuming. It works great and I usually weed out the bad tangents pretty > quickly but I also find that many of the sizing steps are unnecessary. I have > heard of luthiers using lathes, bone sizers, metal sizers and pencil sharpener > types of devices to make the posts. > > I am interested in what you use to make the posts and what you have tried. If > you have something that you prefer can you please help me along by posting a > picture or emailing me directly? > > Thank you, > > Scott Gayman > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
