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[ProperTing]

This box started out as a Double Ray Black Dot:

-Removed the celluloid and finished the casework.
-Fitted all new hardware and straps
-Replaced the grill cloth
-Retaped the bellows
-Replaced all buttons (including air button) with black pearloid Hohner Corona buttons.
-Bushed the bass buttons.
-Felted the bass pallets
-Fitted a new fingerboard and adjusted action.
-Fitted new A Mano treble reed blocks that I had setup by Martin Quinn

It now plays like a dream. Start to finish, I loved every minute of it! I would however avoid taping the bellows in the future. Very tedious and time consuming work! A big thanks goes out to Lester, Theo, and many other posts I had referenced here on Melnet.

[John MacKenzie (Cugiok)]

Looks lovely, well done you.

SJ

[Pearse Rossa]

-Fitted a new fingerboard and adjusted action.

Where did you source the fingerboard?

[Scobarandbar]

That looks amazing!  How much did it cost you in bits to do that if you don't mind me asking?

[Tamba]

Looks fantastic, it would be great to hear how it sounds. Here is a video of a young someone playing a similar stripped down Hohner ( her first box maybe?). Looks like someone has applied a little more lacquer than is on yours though!

https://youtu.be/uOeAE5lm-Gk

[playandteach]

I'm guessing the a mano reeds will be a different sound.

[Grape Ape]

That looks really sharp!! Nice work!!!

[Grape Ape]

I too would love to hear how it sounds, though I am still waiting to hear how the box the guy made out of wine boxes sounds....

[triskel]

I've seen plenty of stripped-down ones over the years, but never one with such a light finish - it looks well!

Here is a video of a young someone playing a similar stripped down Hohner ( her first box maybe?).

https://youtu.be/uOeAE5lm-Gk

Not her first box anyway - she was playing a big, red Paolo Soprani (with three of the four reeds taped off) when I first saw her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7TVNo4dCW0&feature=youtu.be

Then she had several Hohners, before getting her first two Castagnaris off me in the early '90s.

I think the first stripped-down Hohner I saw belonged to my late friend Eilín Ní Riordáin, though it still has its red celluloid (and grille) in this clip (the only one I can find of her now) from the '70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5SxW4jZy4

[pgroff]

I think the first stripped-down Hohner I saw belonged to my late friend Eilín Ní Riordáin, though it still has its red celluloid (and grille) in this clip (the only one I can find of her now) from the '70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5SxW4jZy4

Not to go too far off topic, here's more of her lovely music on a (pre-stripped?) red Hohner:

https://www.facebook.com/ciarank1/videos/10154557888404125/

PG

[triskel]

I think the first stripped-down Hohner I saw belonged to my late friend Eilín Ní Riordáin ...

Not to go too far off topic, here's more of her lovely music on a (pre-stripped?) red Hohner:

https://www.facebook.com/ciarank1/videos/10154557888404125/

Ah, thanks Paul!

In fact it seems that may be the same red D/D# one she's playing in the older clip, only with the grille off it, whilst it looks like the stripped C#/D one I usually saw her with is on the floor, to the right of her, only with the grille on it?

I used to get taken sailing on a gleoiteog out of the Sean Ceibh (old harbour) in Spiddal by Eilín, and Bruce Du Ve, in the old days.

[Grape Ape]

Wow! Fantastic playing in that last one, but the music was the only thing I could understand from her....