I would like to clarify that I have directed my comments to the building of a hurdy gurdy for my own use, not to sell. I am the one who mentioned Graeme McCormacks' Lute-backed gurdy on his Antiquated Strings site. I mentioned I was building my first hurdy gurdy from his plans. I offered a link to his plans as a starting point for building a gurdy 'for your own PERSONAL use', never to resell. Building from some other persons drawings for profit is wrong on many levels and very unethical.
I just hope we can have a thread on building your own hurdy gurdy, period. Costs and reselling are not the point, in my opinion. Share the knowledge of building for the sake of the craft. I want to build a hurdy gurdy myself, in my own shop with my own tools, using my own abilities, or lack thereof. The end result has only to please the builder, whatever that entails. It would be wonderful if there were examples of gurdy builds, shop built tools, molds, peg shapers, etc., Violin-makers share this knowledge (i.e. Maestronet.com), I think amateur gurdy builders could do it also. Tim On Oct 17, 5:40 pm, maesoph <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All: > > Per your advice, I have contacted Hurdy Gurdy Crafters and am quite > pleased with the responses from Mel and Ann there. However, I don't > think I can tackle a Hurdy Gurdy from scratch and can't really afford > the kit. Is there any middle ground out there somewhere? I need to > make an HG that ultimately can be sold, so quality has to be there, > but I can't shell out $900 for a complete kit and only sell the HG for > $1200 or so (just guessing, but it's unlikely I would get more unless > I was a Pro at this). Any chance of getting material cost down to > $500 or less?????? Any ideas would be appreciated - maybe I should > take this straight to Mel and Ann though??? > > Mike -- 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.
