Kolrosing: Decorating the Trossingen Lyre

Рет қаралды 13,490

Күн бұрын

I have written links mentioned in this video below plus some more to help and inspire you, The book in the video that (low stock at the moment)has the drawings on the lyre:
www.amazon.de/gp/product/39812...
(This is an Amazon Affiliate link to the German language version of their Website, it doesn't cost you any more to buy but adds a bit to my amazon camera fund for better future videos!)
My Lyre CD is available from my website as always from my website as a Disc or Download, It has all my Bowed and plucked lyre plans.
If you purchase my CD/Download to make a Trossingen Lyre, email me after purchase and I will have an extra download of my scaled Trossingen drawings/tracings to help you! ;-)
www.michaeljking.com/lyre_shop...
www.michaeljking.com/plans.htm
Update 2020: My fellow Lyre maker, Jan van Capelle, who re-drew many of my plans on the lyre CD has created a re-drawing of the decorations, painstakingly re-scaled to fit the re-defined symmetrical form, do check out his plans page for the downloads of this. Would save a lot of time if tou are making a replica. (google Dutch Luthier)
Do also check out my Trossingen Lyre pages, watch out too for the follow up videos
www.michaeljking.com/trossinge...
Special thanks must go to Dr Barbara Theune-Grosskopf Who has helped me and the Lyre Community through her great work and wonderful openness.
Do check out My Anglo Saxon Lyre Community on Yahoo groups
and my Lyre group on Facebook, there is a world of lyres out there!
In the video I am using a Kolrosing knife made in the USA by Lee Ferguson see
www.fergusonknives.com
for more info on Kolrosing see:
www.pinewoodforge.com/kolrosin...
Best wishes!
Michael J King
website
www.michaeljking.com
facebook
/ michael.j.king.1970
Blog
michaeljking.blogspot.com/
Twitter
/ michaeljking
Google+
plus.google.com/1112136607769...

Пікірлер: 33

@Goschenhobel 10 жыл бұрын

Great video instruction - and a terrific result! Congratulations, Michael!

@michaeljking 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@askicperspective9653 3 жыл бұрын

True craftsmanship. Lots and lots of respect.

@lunhil1264 10 жыл бұрын

I love that decorating technique!

@TheWindGinProject 10 жыл бұрын

Very impressive! Thanks for sharing.

@Cj12sings 10 жыл бұрын

Again AWESOMENESS!!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!

@xXxCatsnakexXx 10 жыл бұрын

This is excellent Michael!

@Kroffe75 10 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I knew this technique to be used on scrimshaw but not on wood. I will be trying it out. Thanks for the vid!

@michaeljking 10 жыл бұрын

The thing with wood is to sand to a finish, seal it with oil or shellac before you pencil on your design, then it will not absorb the colour when you oil and fine sand over the design.

@Kroffe75 10 жыл бұрын

Michael J King Thanks for the tip. How would it work if i put a french pollish finish over this kind of work, will it draw out the collor?

@michaeljking 9 жыл бұрын

Kroffe75 I would French polish before cutting and simply fine sand or buff after oiling. The oil seals the pigment.

@davelester1985 5 жыл бұрын

Lotta work, much appreciated. Nice job! Interesting to know what key notes are the strings going to be.

@jeremiahmyer5005 7 жыл бұрын

really very very beautiful!

@dougwilliams7667 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet, so just the dusting with paint brush was enough to get the coal to fill cut ?

@michaeljking 3 жыл бұрын

The oil turns the fine ground charcoal into a paint paste. I think the original used beeswax as the medium.

@waltgoodmann530 6 жыл бұрын

Do you know if it affected the tone at all

@piercing13 7 жыл бұрын

Hello, first bravo for your super work. My boyfriend would like to make one but each rope represents what note? Thank you for your help. note music are MI/FA/SOL/LA/SI/DO/RE?

@michaeljking 7 жыл бұрын

Karaï my standard lyre is in g diatonic This lyre has a longer scale length and i tune to E diatonic I have another video showing this trossingen tuning . Do check my website. www.michaeljking.com/how_to_play_the_lyre.htm

@michaeljking 10 жыл бұрын

@dulcimoredan 10 жыл бұрын

Wow! That was fun.

@dougwilliams7667 3 жыл бұрын

What are some of the best woods to use?

@michaeljking 3 жыл бұрын

The best woods are Maple, beech, birch, apple, pear, woods that have similar properties. Not open grain woods. Medium density Not too soft.

@ImperialistRunningDo 10 жыл бұрын

Holy CATS. That must have taken you forever. Any chance you have scale drawings of the engravings for sale? Great work.

@michaeljking 10 жыл бұрын

The first one took nearly a month, mostly in laying out the design, preparation . the second 2 weeks or so to do. Just time and patience with these. I am preparing some scaled drawings to accompany the Trossingen Plans on the Lyre making CD, The book the drawings are published in seems to be low in stock at the moment.

@ImperialistRunningDo 10 жыл бұрын

Michael J King Keep me posted. I'll pick up your next edition of the CD.

@michaeljking 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Very interesting. :-)

@thehurdygurdyweeklyhgweekl8107 10 жыл бұрын

sharing to #HGWeekly :) playlist = "lutherie"

@Rottensparrow 4 жыл бұрын

Do you think I can do that on spruce soundboard, or it will splt?

@michaeljking 4 жыл бұрын

Not the best option. I have done simple Rune patterns on Pine and spruce but the detail is hard. I think Pyrography, burning the design on would be less structurally damaging than cutting lines into it if the top is thin (under 3mm) Drawing or painting is another option. The Norwegian Hardanger fiddle has patterns on the soft soundboard painted in (Rosemarling) Seal the top before painting, The Kolrosing technique works better on hardwoods, maple, Beech, Birch etc

@Rottensparrow 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljking it's 5 mm actually, but I understand, that's what I though might happen

@michaeljking 4 жыл бұрын

@@Rottensparrow shallow cut no more than 1mm with a razor sharp craft knife or scalpel. Detail. Is hard in spruce to cut in. If you don't want to draw or paint the design on another option is sealing the surface and use a black laser photocopy of the design in reverse and use a solvent to transfer the print to the wood,. There are videos on KZfaq showing printing on wood this way. I have used all these methods over the years.

@Rottensparrow 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljking Do you think oak is a good kind of wood for a soundboard? I know that most lyres soundboards were made of maple, and probably just a one or two from oak. Is it resonating well?

@michaeljking 4 жыл бұрын

@@Rottensparrowit's a less responsive wood as a top with gut strings, more percussive when strummed. Better as a back or frame wood. I have built two oak topped Snape model lyres (14 years ago now.) Most Anglo Saxon lyres have maple soundboards but this model was found made of oak throughout. www.michaeljking.com/snape1.jpg maple is the best wood that was chosen historically I use maple on historical Anglo Saxon lyres, yew wood ocasionally on Viking age models, spruce on later lyres like my Kraviklyra. Recently used red Cedar on my modern hybrid lyres to get a warmer sound.