I am looking at shipping harps by air and ground. I have a heated ground solution in some situations. And unheated air freight in some others. However I need...
I may have some of the northernmost harps of Celtic type, here in northeastern Iceland barely one degree south of the Arctic circle. My larger harps and one...
OK, here's another dumb neophyte question. Assuming I do not use a hardwood outer string rib (just a heavier inner rib), and do not apply veneer to the...
Val, The problem depends on the strings' tension, hardness and diameter. Grommets don't eliminate the tendency of the string to rip an elongated hole in the...
Thanks for the insights, Rick. I've pretty much decided to use grommets AND a reinforcing inlay ("dots" around the grommets, glued into the soundboard & much...
Hello, refering to the Question of eyelets / ribs: I was building a harp in the workshop of Martin Gust, Germany. He uses an outer rib, and hardens the wood by...
Hello! I recently posted this at the wire harps group and someone kindly suggested I try here. May I ask if any makers out there have views on the use of...
I had a person contact me to help him with a Pakistani harp. Yes, I know, I know....however, he seems to love this harp; but, of course, the levers are...
hi, i have been making for about 16 years now. although i havnt made much lately. anyway i have pictures of some of the harps i have made in the past on my new...
Hi all, have just completed a 36 string harp with my first solid soundboard. I find that that between E4 and F5 the strings are in tunr but they seem to have...
It is unlikely that the difference in growth rings in one part of the soundboard would have a pronounced effect on sound. Look more to overall design of all...
Dear everyone I've finally got a professional harpist to test the Camac atlantide-prestige with me It had been an excellent all round harp with a big and ...
Dear Leonard, A bellied soundboard is not neccesarily a cause for worry. Some pulling up is expected in a harp, and the builder allows for it, to varying...
Dear Everyone Thank you so much for all your kind replies! Attached is a very informative reply from an eminent harp restorer/technician and all round expert...
As usual, Paul has put his finger on the point of the issue here. It's sort of a pass fail question; If the harp can be regulated properly, then the soundboard...
Hello All, I am new to the list, though I've been playing and teaching harps for about ten years. Five years ago I built a nylon harp and now I'm trying my...
Dear Folks, I noticed an ad for Titebond's new liquid hide glue. Does anyone know if it is available in Canada yet? Has anyone used it? How is it compared to...
As a trained violin maker, I will recommend that you only ever use hide glue that you mix and cook yourself. This is one of the cardinal rules of fine violin...
Epoxy varies widely with both manufacturer and application. For instance, how many epoxy joints are made with straight resin/ hardener? It is rare that...
I use 3 kind of glues: Titebone for the 90% of building (mainly guitars), super glue for the small repairs and filling and craks repair. Epoxy for big filling...
As a luthier, I like Glen, have seen or heard of a number of instruments in which the epoxy joints failed over time though they may have seemed good when new. ...
Hi everyone, the harp building project is going well. I have many of the laminates and pieces made, tomorrow it will be time to join some of the soundbody ...
Oddly enough, I'm assembling a pair today. One curly sugar maple, t'other quilted cherry. Wonderful stuff. This joint is the great separator of men from...
I have a pictorial essay on the a dowel method on my site, http://www.sligoharps.com/dowel.html Lately I have done more neck/pillar joints with a simple miter,...
Am a novice & never done this before, so I don't know for sure if it'll work, but here's the whim I'm going to try. I've got 1.25" stock for neck & pillar -...
I would like to introduce my new family member.
It's called Ælf-sciene Earn. Which in anglo saxon means Beautiful eagle.
Based on the Sirr harp, my father and...
