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  Topic: cutting the purfling channel
ctviolin

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PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:21 am   Subject: cutting the purfling channel
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  Topic: cutting the purfling channel
ctviolin

Replies: 45
Views: 40688

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:08 am   Subject: cutting the purfling channel
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  Topic: cutting the purfling channel
ctviolin

Replies: 45
Views: 40688

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:51 am   Subject: Re: purfling cutter

Absolutely.


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  Topic: cutting the purfling channel
ctviolin

Replies: 45
Views: 40688

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:26 pm   Subject: Re: purfling cutter
Greg-
I can try to post a pic if anyone interested..........

Tim

Absolutely.
  Topic: Well, whatever.
ctviolin

Replies: 41
Views: 38168

PostForum: Everything Else   Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:35 pm   Subject: Well, whatever.
(as well as all of the benefit they provided, for, at the time I needed them, I really did NEED them.)


Thirty three years on dialysis...
Drugs helped.
But finally getting off of them? - what ...
  Topic: Hide Glue Experiment
ctviolin

Replies: 13
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PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:18 pm   Subject: Hide Glue Experiment


...with no sizing.

Maybe because the wood was not sized,...



Please describe exactly how and why you "size".
Thank you,
ct
  Topic: Latest violins
ctviolin

Replies: 7
Views: 8493

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:34 pm   Subject: Re: Latest violins
Welcome back!


OK, I'll admit it readily, I'm an idiot.

Aren't we all!

& I've got the photos to prove it...
  Topic: Hide Glue Experiment
ctviolin

Replies: 13
Views: 13002

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:56 am   Subject: Hide Glue Experiment
I always have a little bit of hollow in the middle.

I was taught soaking the glue overnight before heat it. I found soaked one is better.

Yes a little hollow in the middle, (where the ends touc ...
  Topic: Hide Glue Experiment
ctviolin

Replies: 13
Views: 13002

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:51 pm   Subject: Hide Glue Experiment
Of course - I always have a good deal of 'press out' on my center joits. And - I believe that the glue I make, is ALWAYS fresh, hot and (brush) applied to both surfaces.

Glue that 'presses out' of ...
  Topic: Hide Glue Experiment
ctviolin

Replies: 13
Views: 13002

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:31 pm   Subject: Hide Glue Experiment

Gelled glue may leave a strong bond, but also leaves a visible seam line.

A well glued, (well flattened) center joined plate - will NEVER show a glue line.

Period. End of sentence.
  Topic: Latest violins
ctviolin

Replies: 7
Views: 8493

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:04 pm   Subject: Latest violins
Boca Grande esta es mucho correcto. (Spanish)

I haven't spoken to Josh in a while. We have gone in slightly different directions, at least for the present. He is a spectacular intellect, and an ab ...
  Topic: Latest violins
ctviolin

Replies: 7
Views: 8493

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:38 am   Subject: Latest violins
Never too old, CT... keep posting and sharing your knowledge!!
Cheers, Glad to see you posting again.... Mat
BTW... to post pics here you need to upload to an image hosting site...see the details i ...
  Topic: Latest violins
ctviolin

Replies: 7
Views: 8493

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:18 am   Subject: Latest violins
Ok here are my very last violins, started some years ago and really - the first projects after me having had my stroke.
So, after all, relearning how to speak again, I did find myself going almost ro ...
  Topic: Well, whatever.
ctviolin

Replies: 41
Views: 38168

PostForum: Everything Else   Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 3:50 pm   Subject: Well, whatever.
Or starting a new (building) project?
  Topic: Well, whatever.
ctviolin

Replies: 41
Views: 38168

PostForum: Everything Else   Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:45 am   Subject: Well, whatever.
Well, I'm here living and writing, but not making much of anything these days. I have been dealing with some of the excesses that go along with being a "medical object" of sorts for some yea ...
 
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