Nicely said and I agree totally.
I only have one instrument I actually built. It's a trapezoid shaped
mountain dulcimer (I made a staff dulcimer at an evening class). I
decided to build a sound box to fit it on as it was pretty quiet.
It's made of some thin plywood I had lying around, a few bits of pine
1x1 1/2 from another project (boxing a bath in), some panel pins and
lots of PVA wood glue. It didn't fit together too well so I filled in
the spaces with the PVA glue. I played it for 30 years and then, in a
burst of exuberance I bought a new one from EMS ready built and lo and
behold, they fill in the spaces with wood glue as well. :)
The frets are less accurate than on mine and the sound is nowhere as
good as my knock-together one. I also painted the sides and back of mine
with some green paint I had spare.
Looks horrible but still sounds better than the "proper" one and I had a
great deal of fun and satisfaction making it. Even more so when I saw
what I paid good money for.
I doubt I would get anything for it if I sold it (not that I would) but
had a great time making it and that's the key, isn't it?
I too am interested in the ins and outs of building a HG even though
it's something I would/could never do but I love to hear this stuff
because I love the instrument and how it's made fascinates me.
Colin Hill
On 26/10/2011 21:16, timw wrote:
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
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