Violin Forum/Message Board

Craig -

I have never heard of anyone "oiling" a violin to keep it from cracking. In fact, applying anything oily to the instrument may compromise the varnish, pegs, fingerboard and strin ...

Lots of helpful information in your responses. I have always assumed that wide fluctuations in air temperature and humidity in the place of storage of cut, but unworked wood was not good for the tone ...

I have been buying up tonewood in recent years that had been cut 2-3 years previous to my purchases. My intent has been to further season the wood myself. The TX climate runs the gamut -- from a lo ...

Thanks, Dave. Makes sense. I was puzzled as you were that the notations were left there. Now that the top is off, of course, it occurs to me that I need to hear how the instrument sounds, particula ...

Thanks, Dave. Makes sense. I was puzzled as you were that the notations were left there. Now that the top is off, of course, it occurs to me that I need to hear how the instrument sounds, particula ...

Thanks, Dave. Makes sense. I was puzzled as you were that the notations were left there. Now that the top is off, of course, it occurs to me that I need to hear how the instrument sounds, particula ...

I put the jointer plane in the vise sole up. As daunting as it might sound to try to move the plate across the plane sole, I find it easier than balancing the plane sole on a stationary plate edge. ...

I put the jointer plane in the vise sole up. As daunting as it might sound to try to move the plate across the plane sole, I find it easier than balancing the plane sole on a stationary plate edge. ...

When I recently opened up an old violin made for a Violano sold in the first part of the last century by Chicago's Mills Novelty (now in WI) -- a "self-playing violin and piano" --, I found ...