Q418C the latest of late entries!

downbytheriver

Courtesy of a quite excellent Christmas present, I am about to commence building a hurdy gurdy! 

Kit: 
https://i.imgur.com/3pZti02.jpg

Hopefully done before the quarter is finished! 

stickyfiddle

Nice! I still don't have my kit yet...  

downbytheriver

Kit unpacked

https://i.imgur.com/ouJOLd9.jpg

First subassemblies coming together. 

https://i.imgur.com/7f3dvab.jpg

Initial thoughts. First, I found two build videos On YouTube - probably not essential but not unhelpful! Second - when they say wax it, wax it - makes assembly much easier and I suspect provides essential lubrication. 

The quality of the kit kit is incredible - beautiful laser cutting and easily pressed out - very precise assembly. 

Work continues. 

BeardyAndy

Wow... what a lot of parts!

Look forward to seeing the end result.

downbytheriver

Few more progress pics: 

https://i.imgur.com/oxVh24R.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jU8xCWA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jwU8sQ1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/wbIDD2X.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9SAIWWn.jpg

Yes there are are a lot of parts, and I just managed to break one! One of the gears broke due to my clumsiness - I’ll glue it back together carefully and hope for the best. 

downbytheriver

End of day 1 (reached the point where the broken, under repair, gear - part of the tuning mechanism - is needed to continue). 

https://i.imgur.com/GRaJxbw.jpg

Proper fun to put together, amazed by the precision of the kit. Continued tomorrow. 

downbytheriver

Well, it’s finished! 

https://i.imgur.com/eIkmnPu.jpg

Does it play? Yes. Nasty sound though! As my wife put it - “it’s more of a jigsaw than a serious instrument isn’t it?” As usual, she’s dead right. I’ll have a further fiddle and possibly do a video later. 

My my fascination with Hurdy Gurdies is undimmed though

Stuckfast

Isn't the whole point of hurdy-gurdies that, in the best possible way, they sound nasty?

Andyjr1515

What an amazing thing!  Whatever it sounds like

DartmoorHedgehog

Cool.  I work for a Swedish company, which has piqued my interest in all things Swedish and led to me want a nickelharpa (like a hurdy-gurdy but bowed instead of having the wheel).  I've got far too many musical instruments though (including some ridiculous ones like a schalmei), so can't really justify buying one just for novelty.  My attempts at playing my daughter's violin don't bode well for how a bowed instrument would sound in my hands... (strangled cat).  Perhaps I should get a hurdy-gurdy then I can blame the sound quality on the instrument rather than my bowing technique

normula1

Looks great.

longjaw

Looks great, so much so I've decided to buy this.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/253921417571