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 Topic: Rabbit Glue |
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| BobW Replies: 6 Views: 5193 |
 Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:57 am Subject: Rabbit Glue |
| Dave, I have used rabbit glue to replace a missing slice of spruce on the top. The damage was so bad, the top was removed, and needed a slice of spruce from the purfling to the f-hole. After carefu ... | |
| Topic: Can a beginner learn Paganini Caprice 24 in one year? |
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| BobW Replies: 5 Views: 12542 |
Forum: Everything Else Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 4:18 pm Subject: Can a beginner learn Paganini Caprice 24 in one year? |
| Ryan, I commend you on your initial determination, however you stated you are not a musician. This implied to me that you were making this a quest of music quantity rather than quality. It seems yo ... | |
| Topic: Noisy tailpiece |
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| BobW Replies: 6 Views: 6173 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:39 pm Subject: Noisy tailpiece |
| Is Wolf Note(s) the term used for this issue? | |
| Topic: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
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| BobW Replies: 11 Views: 8435 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:36 pm Subject: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
| LP, Thanks for the reply. I had planned to contact International Violin, and have had issues with them whatsoever but if it's simply something like denatured alcohol, mineral spirits, toulene, etc, ... | |
| Topic: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
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| BobW Replies: 11 Views: 8435 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 1:00 pm Subject: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
| Mat,
Sorry for the late post. You are correct. The Bekhol is nothing more than alcohol with a lower percentage of water. Rather than chance using off the shelf pharmacy grade alcohol, I bought ... |
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| Topic: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
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| BobW Replies: 11 Views: 8435 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:22 pm Subject: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
| LP, Thanks for the reply. I had planned to contact International Violin, and have had issues with them whatsoever but if it's simply something like denatured alcohol, mineral spirits, toulene, etc, ... | |
| Topic: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
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| BobW Replies: 11 Views: 8435 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:36 pm Subject: What do I use to thin Spirit Varnish? |
| I recently bought 2 100mL bottles of Spirit Varnish from Int. Violin Ltd. The golden yellow color looks great but the varnish is just too thick to apply evenly. I placed about a 50 -50 mixture of d ... | |
| Topic: Turn of the century Guanerius copy top crack will not close |
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| BobW Replies: 5 Views: 6005 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:44 pm Subject: Turn of the century Guanerius copy top crack will not close |
| Matt, Yes it was glued previously but with some dark colored glue, and a mixture of the original dissolved finish. There is no glue in the crack anymore, but used a mixture of water and bleach to re ... | |
| Topic: Turn of the century Guanerius copy top crack will not close |
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| BobW Replies: 5 Views: 6005 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:00 am Subject: Turn of the century Guanerius copy top crack will not close |
| Ken and Michael, thanks for your replies. I appreciate both of your valuable inputs.
What I expect to get out of this repair (no matter how long it takes), is a playable secondary instrument wh ... |
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| Topic: Turn of the century Guanerius copy top crack will not close |
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| BobW Replies: 5 Views: 6005 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:24 pm Subject: Turn of the century Guanerius copy top crack will not close |
| This is my first post. I have a good amount of repair experience on guitars, but need some advice here on a violin top crack issue.
Here is some odd history on the violin: The violin in question ... |
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