Post #478381 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 12:38 PM

On 2009-08-20 09:17, TheBigT wrote:

Great job on the lashing. Looks too complicated for my mind.

It's going to take a big leap up in complications right here...

The head just wasn't tight enough after it shrunk up. I think the leather cords might have stretched a bit too. To fix this, I could either redo it with a different type of cord, leave it, or turn it into a tunable drum.
I chose to take the tunable drum path, just to see if my plans and calculations would actually work.

To increase the tension on the head, I needed to stretch the cords more. I took the right cord of one attach point and pulled it to the left cord of the attach point next to it. I went all the way around the drum like this

To increase the tension more, I did another wrap to make the new triangles half the size they were:

Here is what you end up with: A very complicated looking lash job with a very tight head

The best part is that you can now tune it. You just slide the bands in the direction of the arrows and as the triangle gets smaller, the tension increases, tightening the head:

It worked great. I still want to change the cord type. Something that has no give at all is necessary.

Buzzy Out!