Violin Forum/Message Board

It's right here;
http://jeremiahsviolins.com/violin.html

Jeremiah

There's a reason I don't carve my scrolls too deeply. I heard at violin making school that Strad didn't carve his deeply, and I'm making a Strad model violin. I've also looked at some of Strad's scrol ...

Thanks...

I made a mistake bandsawing the scroll and I decided to salvage the wood... the scroll is 2mm narrower than I intended as a result. It would look much nicer to my eye if that hadn't ha ...

Here's the finished violin, #23; http://jeremiahsviolins.com/violin.html

I'm very happy with the sound and playability so far but the violin is only a couple hours old or so right now.

Jeremiah

Here's #23 with the tiny knot in the front... most people wouldn't see that and you can't see it in this picture.
http://jeremiahsviolins.com/images/vln23.jpg

It's now in the lightbox getting a ta ...

I think it looks interesting.

Gives it a signature that no other one will duplicate.

Take a look at one of Stradivari's early violins. "Tullaye" c.1670

Now THAT violin has knots i ...

Is that #22? I am looking forward to seeing it. It is really interesting seeing freshly scraped spruce under magnification-- I had no idea how rough it looked. I wonder how people will respond to the ...

Sometimes I find surprises inside my engelmann spruce. I thought this one looked nice.
http://jeremiahsviolins.com/images/knot.jpg

Jeremiah

To answer more of your questions, I find it difficult to make a violin in less than four months, while also doing enough repairs to pay basic living expenses. My instruments are priced at 5k right now ...

I think it would be absolutely essential that you either have a part time regular job or associate yourself with an established shop which can provide you with repairs on a steady basis. Otherwise you ...

What I'm doing is keeping living expenses way down. I'm a single guy with no attachments and can just make ends meet by doing repairs and making full time. My instruments are generally better sounding ...

Can someone recommend a good solid cello pattern for me? I'm looking for something that can make a really good playing and sounding instrument.

I have had good results using the 1704 "Glennie& ...

Hey, Jeremiah!

Welcome back!
Chet

Thanks Chet! I have two violins nearing completion right now, one with domestic wood and the other with European. In a month or two I should have pictures of t ...

Shady Cove, Oregon is where Tepper Tonewoods is. John Tepper is the owner,..

Sometimes I get the urge to use "lesser" quality wood in an instrument... My latest violin will have bigleaf m ...