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Why build your own?
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Build 1-10
Build 11-20
Build 21-32
Eight years later (2014)
1 - Tools to make
2 - Bellows mould
3 - Hex frames
4 - Hex sides, bellows
5 - End boxes
6 - Bellows frames
9 - Reed pans, divisions
7 - Reed tracks
8 - It all went wrong...
9 - Back on track
10 - Sanding
11 - Tuning bellows
12 - Reed frames
13 - Adding angles
14 - The slot angle
15 - Buttons & fretwork
16 - Air holes
17 - Valve pins
18 - The gasket
19 - Crimping the metal ends
20 - Cutting the fretwork
21 - Bellows
22 - Bushing board, buttons
23 - Processing reed frames
24 - Reed tongues
25 - Reducing button height
Twelve years later (2018)
The reed pan gasket
Finally, strips and a ring of leather were glued onto the top of the walls and the “donut”:
Done!
Now - onto some heavy metal...
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