I'd suggest you talk to Mel Dorries at HurdyGurdyCrafters in Michigan, near Flint. He has a very, very good kit and he sells custom parts for gurdies. He is a very good maker and can help you get started and all along the way. I'd suggest you even pay him a visit and check his amazing workshop (it's definitely something to behold!)
http://www.hurdygurdycrafters.com/index.asp?fmt=large Check the amazing job one of our colleagues here is doing with his kit gurdy, customizing the keybox, adding marquetry, etc http://harvey-house.info/blog-hg/ On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, maesoph <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been under the spell of the Hurdy Gurdy for about a year now, > ever since I saw one on the cover of my brother-in-law’s luthier > magazine. I am a mechanical engineer by trade and a woodworker by > hobby and have made several unique things. I absolutely insist on > making unique things that are difficult or near impossible to sell. I > simply wouldn’t have it any other way. > > Anyway, I have decided that I need to build a Hurdy Gurdy and would > like some help selecting the one that would be best to make. You > probably get this request a lot. I do have access to a machine shop > and my own woodworking shop and can read prints, etc. There are > several sources of free prints, but I am not sure which Hurdy Gurdy to > make. Actually, I am willing to pay for a decent set of prints if I > need to. I have no musical inclination and don’t know diatonic from > fully chromatic keybox or other such things, but I bet I could build > one. Anyway, I would prefer to build from scratch because I know what > the kits cost and can’t really go there. > > Any help you can provide would be appreciated. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
