Violin Forum/Message Board

I'm on my first violin after making guitars and am going up the learning curve. Your device is neat. I have always got by OK with the dividers, however, having spent my working life as a design engin ...

Yes I'll do that. I asked the tonewood supplier if he knew the cause of such marks and was told that it was a natural product. I resisted my urge to thank him profusely for such a profound insight a ...

Thanks. I'll follow your advice and put a cleat on the patch of spalting. I'm guessing the discolouration will be lost in the colours of varnishing but that will be a new area for me...my previous in ...

The black/brown spalting mark adds character, I agree. I'm more concerned about the yellow tint which is a stripe running the full length of the back. Have you seen that before?

I haven't been able to find any information on this so I thought I'd try here.

The back I am working on has a slight yellow tint for about 15mm on each side of the centre-line. I found the same s ...

My wife took up the violin a couple of years ago, having previously played the piano and oboe. The main challenges for her have been intonation and bow control. Less obvious is the mental shift from a ...

North London...Muswell Hill to be precise. The place dates from the 12th century and is the source of the river Moselle....hence Muswell. I like the sound of the word, like one of Dowland's pieces, a ...

Thanks very much for all this info. I'll do trials on some offcuts from guitar soundboards and ripple sycamore. I'm not going to do any fake aging, it would go against the whole of my professional ca ...

I'm not sure I'm clear about the colours. After the linseed oil and then a coat of clear was it a coat with colour 601 followed by further coats to taste with Burnt Sienna?

Being a retired enginee ...

My first post. I'm part way through my first violin. I have been reading about varnish and am rather daunted by the witchcraft/home-brew approach and the expense of some of the systems on the market. ...

Hello everyone. My name is John. I played the violin from the age of 7 to 17 then switched to classical guitar. Now, 47 years later I'm playing the violin again, as well as the guitar.

I've made 4 ...