Violin Forum/Message Board

Well, color density is not a problem here. We'll see about fragility.

Heh, that's funny. I can actually get an employee discount on Ace spar varnish: my father works at an Ace hardware store. I'll definitely try that, but I still want to experiment with making oil varni ...

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...sorry.

Okay, let me rephrase the question:

Does anybody here have any experience, theory, or reasonably educated guess regarding either making Michelman's varnish with something other than rosin, or makin ...

The violin may have been left out in a field for all we know. Any theory regarding this is at best an educated guess; research has produced no unified result.

Really, I don't c how Eistein, being t ...

You said the plane is wooden. That makes it a lot easier to tune up, but likely more difficult to use. If the bottom of the plane is in fact wooden, then you should neither take it to a machine shop n ...

My advice would be: don't use violin varnish.

Nitrocellulose laquer is absurdly toxic, looks like plastic, and breaks down with age. Waterbase finishes look even more like plastic (no chatoyance). ...

I've noticed that Michelman varnish, Fulton propolis soap ground, and usually madder lake all use basically the same process: put stuff (rosin, propolis, madder root) in lye solution, precipitate with ...