Thank you for this video. Now I know how you applied the gold to my nameboard. I enjoyed playing the featured instrument in your workshop recently - lovely action and tone.
Do you worry that by creating these dozens of wonderful videos, and sharing them with the world, that you may actually help people to make their OWN harpsichords/clavichords/similar instruments ?
Or would you WELCOME such an addition to the limited number of such instruments on this here planet ?
I have a pleasant sufficiency of work, and no problem encouraging people to make their own instruments. Note that these videos only show ways that work for me, and how I might do some of the multitude of processes involved in building or maintaining historic keyboard instruments: A simple search will reveal possible alternate techniques (eg cutting a quill, or winding a string loop) used by my colleagues.
Nice! On the silkscreen, do you have "CAREY BEEBE * MMX" "CAREY BEEBE * MMXI" ""CAREY BEEBE * MMXII" ""CAREY BEEBE * MMXIII", etc. ?
When you go to do the final, actual screening on the nameboard, does it ever go wrong? If so, what do you do then? Clean it off with solvent and try again?
Yes, the screen is made with inscriptions to last for several years. The two either side of the current screening area are covered with clear tape to prevent unintended bleed. Yes, in the unlikely event of a poor print, the Flex enamel can be immediately removed from the painted and varnished nameboard surface with White Spirit.
Thank you for this video. Now I know how you applied the gold to my nameboard. I enjoyed playing the featured instrument in your workshop recently - lovely action and tone.
tormus1 1 year ago
Do you worry that by creating these dozens of wonderful videos, and sharing them with the world, that you may actually help people to make their OWN harpsichords/clavichords/similar instruments ?
Or would you WELCOME such an addition to the limited number of such instruments on this here planet ?
josh9point0 1 year ago
I have a pleasant sufficiency of work, and no problem encouraging people to make their own instruments. Note that these videos only show ways that work for me, and how I might do some of the multitude of processes involved in building or maintaining historic keyboard instruments: A simple search will reveal possible alternate techniques (eg cutting a quill, or winding a string loop) used by my colleagues.
hpschdnu 1 year ago
Nice! On the silkscreen, do you have "CAREY BEEBE * MMX" "CAREY BEEBE * MMXI" ""CAREY BEEBE * MMXII" ""CAREY BEEBE * MMXIII", etc. ?
When you go to do the final, actual screening on the nameboard, does it ever go wrong? If so, what do you do then? Clean it off with solvent and try again?
josh9point0 1 year ago
Yes, the screen is made with inscriptions to last for several years. The two either side of the current screening area are covered with clear tape to prevent unintended bleed. Yes, in the unlikely event of a poor print, the Flex enamel can be immediately removed from the painted and varnished nameboard surface with White Spirit.
hpschdnu 1 year ago