Violin Forum/Message Board

make a viola! then a cello!!

I think the 'trick' is really sharp scrapers.

Being inspired by the recent Sherlock Holmes movie...Rocky Road to Dublin...one of my favorite irish tunes...

.....start with Strobel, then graduate to Johnson Courtnall and Strad posters...this seems to be the way to go without spending major $$

I was looking at the International Violin website and it looks like they ship out of the U.S. They ship fast and their oil varnish seems to have more color than another company i tried....i also got ...

As to the neck angle, i am no pro but i would approach it as i have learned to approach every situation in life, if you think you can make it better go for it...if you think you will make it worse, le ...

Very nice! Very 'clean' looking, does look a bit naked without the purfling, also your bridge looks like it is leaning the wrong way. For my first I didn't have a purfling marker, so i drew the line ...

if anyone does facebook, I got a couple of pics of my first one in progress there...you can add me as a friend or whatever, i think you can see 'em without signing up though.

doin' a little reading on Leonardo...what genius!

very nice!! pics of #2 soon? Smile

While finishing off my first violin, I noticed that I (right handed) had to adopt different techniques for finishing each side of the violin. I was wondering if it is apparent from Stradivari's work w ...