Working methods

In addition to reproducing the instruments themselves I have spent a considerable amount of effort to reproduce, as faithfully I can, the methods originally used to make them. Many of the original methods are only sketchily described, and so I have had to piece them together from what sources I can. Where information is lacking I have filled it in with extensive experimentation.

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Bore making

An article that I sent to the FOMRHI quarterly detailing a low-tech Reamer making method

Materials

Turning

Toneholes

Finishes 

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