Violin Forum/Message Board

All sorts of things happen for all sorts of reasons.

Where I'm at (in terms of limited experience, but some experience nevertheless), I would look at a lighter gauge A-string, and then balance the ...

This is a link on my website. I'm lucky to know that art teacher. She teaches kids with sight impairment (some to the point of being totally blind).

http://www.briscdisc.co.za/violins/woodpile.html

I have very limited experience with 5-string instruments, but here are some random thoughts based on what I've struggled with.

Basically, the extra string causes more downward pressure on the top, ...

Are there any surviving examples of sound posts throughout the history of violin making?

Is the 1/4 inch post pretty much it from the get go?

Best regards,

ESeveral years ago Dan Larson (Gamu ...

HA HA! Ok so what would you suggest, if I want my violin to be brown, without these transitions, what should I put first, what last, I mean the coats of paint/varnish, and where to buy them... I paint ...

...I was thinking just to paint my new violin which is not completely made yet... but the transition doesn't have to be like this from brown to yellow, maybe it could be done by brush, and then polish ...

I guess there's a lot to say about the subject, but most direct at the moment is that I've never seen a "real" violin that didn't have the dip in the bar in the center.

As far as the dyn ...

In the mid bouts? Really?

Let"s say the bottom of the trough is right on the purfling (in other words as far apart east and west as you'd ever practically want to go). A cycloid will still p ...

Hi Jacob!

Not a source of "worry." Just more work than a straightforward uncomplicated bow shape. I've made all my recent violins strictly in accordance with the c cycloid profiles, and ...

I want to throw out there a different way of looking at an old thought, and that thought is that violins improve with age.
Instead I think it better to say that 'all' violins change with age.
Then t ...

It would all be so much simpler if it weren't for that little reverse dip section on the f hole side of the bar, in the middle!
Why not try to get rid of the dip then? Seriously, if that dip worries ...

The higher level solution is a small tab of thin drumskin glued over the top of the bridge. If you're going to use the tube, make sure none of it sticks out past the bridge on the playing side of the ...

Sorry, I've fixed the link: http://www.briscdisc.co.za/violins/woodpile.html

Just for the record, it's not what "I" did with the scraps, it was somebody else. I was just an innocent bysta ...

A lot of hours went into it and seems a shame to do nothing with it.
Anyone have any better ideas?
Here's what I did once: http://www.briscdisc.co.za/violins/woodpile.html/

I see Craig exhorts us to "look, listen, learn".

I've looked at this inlay. Can't listen to it. Learn't "how" - seriously impressive.

I know I'm halfway crazy (or perhaps bey ...