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...
Greetings I too am at about that stage and I have a mortise and tenon joint. To try and eliminate some of the movement I have made an enfgraved brass plate to...
/Hello Rick and all, To those interested in this joint [of which, I must say, I'm inordinately proud altho some Japanese apprentice probably invented it 3...
Hi, I have a lever harp that has cam levers. It isn't a very expensive harp to begin with so I don't want to invest a lot, it is just a beginner harp. However,...
Hi Folks I'm a relative beginner in this harp-making field having made one Regency harp to (more or less) a Musicmakers plan. I enjoyed building it and I'm ...
Hi Rick Many thanks for the advice. I think the Finnish ply I bought is 3 mm thick 6 ply - the grain is the same orientation on both sides. Regarding the ...
Dear Rick: How do you put your tone bars? Like fishbones? Perpendicular to the center of the top? Cheers Ben [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Yes plywood soundboards work. You've got to play with the parameters to get good sound and longevity. It is true after the 1,000 or so instruments I've...
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I have had very good results with solid spruce using a double tapered soundboard, that is it is thicker in the center of the bass and tapered so that the edge...
Hi Eddie Thanks for all the info and advice. 1000 harps - can't imagine that! I'd love to learn some of the techniques you mentioned. I live in New Zealand ...
Hi Eddie Thanks for all the info and advice. 1000 harps - can't imagine that! I'd love to learn some of the techniques you mentioned. I live in New Zealand ...
hi Richard Try getting in contact with Kim Webby up in Whangarai. His sister is the Chch harpist. He will have experimented with various NZ sourced timbers...
Hi Stephen Thanks for that. I have spoken to Kim some time ago before starting the Regency harp I made. He uses South Island beech I think. I might ring him...
There is an erard for sale at an antik shop in Brussel for about 6000 euros, English label patent number 4421(?). If someone is interested I can make some...
