About a year ago I decided to explore the world of 3D printing. After working on rudimentary skills, I decided to make a harp lever as a learning project, with very little expectation of making one that would be good enough for even student harps. To my amazement, as I learned the skills needed, I saw the possibilities of re-thinking the working of a lever.

3D printed levers are now an emerging reality for  lever harps; they can be easily made and installed by harp teachers, owners and local harp makers. This is the purpose of this paper, to introduce to you this new opportunity. It is possible because  of the recent innovations made by the industry in new structural filaments that can be used for mechanical parts, in new, fast, and accurate affordable 3D printing machines that have auto calibration and preselected printing configurations and in much more improved and resourceful software with plenty of online support for self learning.

To explore this new possibility, you can download the DIY Manual and the 3D lever STL file right here:

DIY 3D Lever Manual Book PDF (about 16 Mb)

Levers STL File (about 250 Mb)

See 3D Plate with some support on some parts

You can also use the menu on the left to read each chapter of the manual on line.
(Right click on a link, you will have an option to open the page in a new tab or window which may be easier to read)

Enjoy! If you have a word or two about them, contact me at the mail address on the top banner.

Thank you.

Josephus