Do try and get in touch with luthiers with real experience with gurdies. Mel Dorries from hurdygurdycrafters sure will be able to help, and even provide you with some parts that are difficult to make yourself without extensive molds, access to a metal lathe and a fully equipped shop...
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Andrew Orrison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I wanted to share with you all the ambitious project I am working on for > my senior keystone in medieval studies. > > I am going to be building a hurdy gurdy. I don't have the most wood > working experience in the world, and this is the first project like this I > have attempted. I am logging my process on a blog. Which I have linked to > at the end. I hope to be done with this project by early april, this give > me time to learn how to play it before I need to show people what I have > finished for a project. > > I am working with some amazing people, a professional luthier, who works > mainly with double basses and violins. If I am lucky I am going to have an > amazing person to help me learn to play my instrument, Jordan Sramek of the > Rose ensemble (an early music group in St. Paul). > > If you have any questions please ask, if you see me making any mistakes, > please tell me(I need all the help I can get). > > My blog: > http://buildingthedewit.blogspot.com/ > > --Andrew > > -- > 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.
