Rob
But Rob,
If you were to make the short journey into Morpeth, you would find far more complicated turning on much the same sort of crude machinery.
It's while since I was in the Chantry but there is a bewildering collection of bagpipes many of them made on bodgers lathes.
It was a collection that I saw as a small boy in the War and amongst even more bewildering things in a tiny little village on the banks of the Tyne. Here, the old shepherds made their instruments using not much more than a Picador lathe and bored out 18" holes with their wife's knitting needles.
But back to the video and a note that I still have billets like this old bodger-- tucked under the spare bed. They may be African Blackwood and Brazillian rosewood but they are essentially not much different.
Perhaps others missed the 'How it is made' programme on making a trombone.
I'll leave it at that
Regards
