Hi: I have seen "cast stone" sculpture made that way, with bronze powder faux finish. With any project , I try to think like the people making the originals....
Dear Friends and Colleagues, from today on www.myspace.com/jochenvogel is officially dechristmassed. Instead You can admire the reappeared „Miss Hamilton“...
The people who ARE used to casting small items quickly and in quantity are companies that make medals, medallions and other coin-like advertising pieces. They...
... Here's my ignorance showing, but I always just assumed that the shoes were cast in a long brick, sort of like a brick of cheese, and then the individual...
Hi: In the modern world you could easily do something like the "cheeze log", cast a long bar of shoes and cut them off like potatoe chips, but the problem of...
... That's just the shoes on my Lamont copy. My Ardival's have never shown any sign of wear at the string shoes, let alone breakage. I'll have to ask Ardival...
I finally managed to be able to post pictures in the album I made a few days ago, so there are some pictures of my now playable-but-not-quite-finished-Lamont....
... The foundry we used was a family-owned small business who had done jewelry findings in the past. But they weren't as careful demolding as we would have...
... I would really be interested in more details about this. Is this route what you use? How do they use the computer in the process, and what metal/ casting...
Hi: You left out a lot of steps in the casting process. Please , don't cast molten bronze into a mould filled with wax!It will blow up in your face. Burn out...
As I understand it, when 2 pieces of metal are rubbing against each other (such as a vibrating string against a stationary string shoe), the softer metal will...
... Actually, what's not realistic is the expectation that a musical instrument will last forever. Every now and then I find myself in the position of looking...
My smaller wire (a Witcher workshop harp) has grommets that work fine. Nothing fancy but functional. I had to replace some of them when I first got the harp...
Hi All. Janet, it's interesting that you should mention strings corroding the grommets; I restrung and cleaned up a tiny Witcher wire-strung for a friend about...
Many of my brass grommet string shoes are cracked and I'm hearing some buzzing/wolf tones that I think could be coming from one or more of the cracked...
It's time once again to update all the listings on the Celtic Harp Page! Listings include: Used Harps for Sale, Rental Harps, Harp-Related Events (workshops,...
The Culdee web site is going off-line for a while and I can be reached by email at davidhs@... Many thanks Dr. David Michael Holmes-Smith, 21 South Eagle...
Constance, I've never tried this, but I've always thought that the delran cross pin seemed an elegant way to do it. It consists of a small piece of delran rod...
... Craig, I'm not familiar with the delrin cross pin, but I'll trust you to know! You do bring up a very important point that so far we've not mentioned in...
Cythia, I was going to address this in response to the earlier discussion on the hardness of shoes relative to the hardness of the wire, but I never got to it....
Hello Craig and Cynthia! ... I do like this idea, much better than those horribly expensive ($10 each would you believe it) apparently custom-milled bearings I...
RE: String shoes, in general. Horseshoe shaped string shoes do more than provide a surface for the string to bear on. When the middle of the item is pulled by...
... each ... Hi I think I know what the problem is with your "grommets" . They are not grommets. Are you ordering bronze bushings or bearings? Little top hat...
Hello David! ... Ah. I didn't know about the existence of fastening nails on string shoes. Nor did I consider a splitting action on the soundboard from the ...
Hello Daniel! ... Yes, that's the kind of thing I'm looking at all right ... but maybe it's not such a great idea, eh? ;-/ ... Wow. I had no idea they made...
Let me repeat that this is a system that I've never tried, but if it was me I'd go with the 1/8" rod or less. If you don't glue the rod into its groove it will...
Hi: I am looking for something for you to use as shoes, most of the things I've found would need to be "fixed" to work right, but far from done looking. What...
I see no reason to make the string holes larger than 3x the diameter of the largest string you expect to use. (3x to allow for the winding for whatever sort of...
Hello again Craig! ... I understand. However, still, I am *very* grateful that you are taking the time to share your thoughts on my project. I should probably...
Hello again Daniel! ... Thank you so much for looking! I'm definitely willing to "fix" something if it would make a good string shoe for me. I have done some...
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