Hand-rolling staples

If you've got an extra 30 minutes, I'll show you how you can make a big difference to your reed making success (for a range of chanters). #RollingStaples #UilleannPipeReeds #ReedMaking
0:59 Why bother?
1:40 What you'll need
8:31 Annealing the copper
9:15 Preparing the blank
15:00 Rolling
17:20 Discussion of mandrel
18:26 Rolling (concluded)
20:40 Forming the eye
21:45 Flattening mandrel digression
22:53 Eye (concluded)
26:00 Sample dimensions and effect of staple size
For more video examples of how to do this, visit Na Píobairí Uilleann's media archive at pipers.ie and search for The Heart of The Instrument series: Benedict Koehler pipers.ie/sour...
Geoff Wooff pipers.ie/sour...

[@silentalliance3269]

Great video & valuable info Bill 👍

[@Goetterdaemmerung86]

This is very helpful thanks

[@ferhatizzat]

Excellent job Bill.

[@davidhegarty3920]

Excellent presentation and very valuable information. A great help to all. Thanks.

[@wildflowers465]

Excellent video Bill, thanks! I never knew how to really use a fully tapered rolling mandrel to its full effect until I watched this.

[@MrBobkeenan]

Great video…. wish there would have been something like this out there 10 years ago. BTW your workbench and work area are very unaturally clean and organized. I would be afraid to work there!

[@RonanBrowneMusic]

Excellent video Bill. Clear and easy to follow.

[@barryoneill9920]

This is such a contribution!

[@cwilde]

This is really great, Bill ❤

[@Roke87]

The staple rolling video to end all staple rolling videos...

[@streetlegal008]

My thinking on this is that staples should be made with a tuning adjustment screw which would enable the internal volume of a staple to be fine tuned. There are so many variables within the reed head itself that it would seem impossible to have a 'hard and fast' measurement for the internal volume of staples, even for a single chanter.

[@bhpipes]

streetlegal008 this is why rushes are useful

[@streetlegal008]

@@bhpipes True - but rushes become necessary because of that lack of internal volume adjustability in staple design. Not only in the case of bagpipes, but for other double reeded instruments such as oboe and bassoon.