Lin grinds his own deer horn powder and goes to get crude lacquer from a forest near Puli every seven or eight months.
因此林立正的鹿角灰是自己以石磨磨出，篩得極細，日後琴面才會平滑。而生漆惟恐購得的漆成份不純，林立正都是在七、八月時，親自到埔里一帶向漆農包漆樹林，並隨漆農入林割漆。