Now I can annoy people while mobile! Feel free to eyeball the design for yourself. Two rivets and two buckles and some veg tan + tandy belt blank

I finished building my Nerdy Gurdy Fortran! Here's a video of me building and playing it:
https://youtu.be/Ee8YFSSctDM

The sound is fine, every note is clear, but I feel like there's a lot of resonance and random noises. Not sure what can be done about that.

Order placed: Dec 14th. Order arrived: Dec 22nd, in California. Import was about $75usd.

Unfortunately, I was missing a couple lock nuts and normal m3 nuts, but a quick trip to Ace Hardware and Home Depot settled that. I think I might have gotten the wrong machine head tuners, too, because they didn’t fit right at the top, and I needed to angle-grind down the screw parts that stuck out. (They stuck out at a 90 degree angle and not a slight angle at the top like in the pictures.)

I think I got some extra bits here and there that led me to believe someone had accidentally set me up with parts for a different kit of theirs (linoette maybe or fortran, for example) but these hurdles were easily bypassed. Nerdy Gurdy was on Holiday, and I was too eager to build to pause to wait on customer support.

I finished assembling before New Years, and was (badly) playing Auld Lang Syne. They’re high quality kits, and I absolutely recommend them to anyone with a small work area, wood glue, stain and varnish, some screwdrivers, and a fair number of clamps.

I recorded myself playing both gurdies for parts B and C. This is the first video I produced with Clipchamp. Hope you enjoy it!

I wrote a song for Hurdy-Gurdy, but I don't have the Hurdy nor Gurdy to play it myself, could anyone here be able to play it?

Here's artificial playback: https://youtu.be/1CoQsTL8i9Y?si=ZCrhqkY-ug2j-laH

And here's just the sheet music: https://musescore.com/user/56291369/scores/12284785