Online Recorder Building Course

The Musical Instrument Makers Forum
in association with
Bellwood Violin
presents
An Interactive Online Recorder Building Course!


Soprano Recorders

Our first interactive online recorder-building course has started, and enrollment is closed.


Week One - Introduction and Overview
      Wood: selection, properties, and preparation
      Basic Tools: lathe, turning tools, measuring tools,small chisels, knives, small files. etc.
      Specialty Tools: chuck, steady rest for drilling, drills, interior bore gauges

Week Two - Review Drawings and Make Tools
      Make wind way channel scraping and polishing tools
      Make specialized measuring tools
      Make drill bits, socket bits, and reamers

Week Three - The Bore
      Turning the billet
      Pilot drilling
      Boring, reaming, and finishing the bore

Week Four - Sockets and Turning
      Turning the sockets
      Making a driving center
      Transferring measurement by stepping
      Ornamental design options

Week Five - Channel and Window
      Mapping out windway channel
      Opening the window: chisel and knife work
      Scoring the channel with a file

Week Six- More Channel and Window
      Rifling the channel to the window
      Shaping the roof

Week Seven - Edge and Channel
      Edge and cut up
      Flaring the channel

Week Eight - Catch Up
      Catch-up week

Week Nine - The Block
      Making and fitting the block

Week Ten - Tone Holes and Tuning
      Drilling the tone holes
      Philosophy of tuning, temperament, and undercutting
      Initial undercutting
      Rough tuning
      Fine tuning: making an air pressure gauge

Week Eleven - Finishing Up
      Finishing, tweaking, more tuning and voicing


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