OK, its a newly photographed violin. I completed this one some months ago, but I’ve only lately gotten around to photograph it. I hesitated because it didn’t feel finished until recently. Multiple sound-posts, bridges, tail-pieces, tail-guts (varying materials and lengths), chin-rests, and string brands…I juggled all these components to optimize the inherent character of this […]
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I spent the past week at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking (Franklin, IN) teaching students from Arlington, VA to Monterey, CA, from a wide range of backgrounds, and at all skill levels. They were there to learn the ins and outs (more like the swirls and swoops) of carving a violin scroll. The
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As you can see, that’s hand planes of course. Luthiers love their tools as much as any craftspeople — this luthier, so much so, that almost 20 years ago I wrote a book on making and using your own wooden hand planes. It has proved to be a useful manual to many and remained in
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