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Topic: Carbon Fiber Violins |
jacobyfineviolins
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Views: 32333
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 2:53 pm Subject: Carbon Fiber Violins |
Can the carbon fiber be layerd with hardwood, and maintain the properties that are desirable? |
Topic: Neck Heel Chamfer |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 12
Views: 10030
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:09 am Subject: Neck Heel Chamfer |
LP, I can see the benefits of fitting the neck this way, and I've done it on a mandolin. For violin I wonder, do you need a jig to keep the neck angle straight? You can adjust the projection when putt ... |
Topic: Neck Heel Chamfer |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 12
Views: 10030
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:12 pm Subject: Neck Heel Chamfer |
I tend to do it. I was told it gives the excess glue somewhere to go, but I've never really examined the need for it after that. |
Topic: Scrolls: the final turn |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 12
Views: 12575
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:30 pm Subject: Scrolls: the final turn |
Thank you Michael, and Luis. Nicely illustrated. |
Topic: Loud Violin |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 12
Views: 10099
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:35 pm Subject: Loud Violin |
I love the satisfaction of solving a tonal problem on one of my own fiddles! Feels great! Cheers! |
Topic: Loud Violin |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 12
Views: 10099
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:25 pm Subject: Loud Violin |
Are you asking for ways the to dial a loud instrument back with setup? Or just wondering what got your fiddle there?
If I have a wildly brash instrument, I check to see that the soundpost is easily m ... |
Topic: another 5 string question , neck root |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 3
Views: 3818
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:50 pm Subject: another 5 string question , neck root |
No need, I think. As long as your mortice is 7 mm deep or so. |
Topic: ff hole question |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 10
Views: 7173
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:03 pm Subject: ff hole question |
I disagree with the gist of copying each model's ff's as the pictures have them. Your outline will never be exactly what you are copying. I have come to believe in geometric laying-out systems, at lea ... |
Topic: Neck falling |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 4
Views: 4384
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:00 pm Subject: Neck falling |
I've managed to keep it at 1 mm or so for the last dozen fiddles. My 20th violin fell from 27.5 to 24!
And that's when I started examining my building practices.
Thank you for your responses. As is ... |
Topic: Neck falling |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 4
Views: 4384
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:23 pm Subject: Neck falling |
Or, more properly, the top rising; most instruments settle in their first year, the neck projection "coming down."
As I understand it, the plates are stretching from the soundpost when thi ... |
Topic: Roger Hargrave's bass making-- PDF of mould |
jacobyfineviolins
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Views: 9050
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Forum: Double Bass Making Forum Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:19 pm Subject: Roger Hargrave's bass making-- PDF of mould |
From MN.
For all you brave souls who consider this sort of thing fun-- Not only is the thread amazing, thus far, but right after the photos of his scraping, Mr. Hargrave put a downloadable PDF of a t ... |
Topic: Violin topographical map |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 61
Views: 38737
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:33 pm Subject: Violin topographical map |
When I make a Strad, I draw out one topographical step at a time, top of the long arch down, to rough it out. I started doing this when I got my Sacconi book. But Michael's right; the transitions from ... |
Topic: finishing up a 16/5" viola grad questions |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 9
Views: 8234
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:21 pm Subject: finishing up a 16/5" viola grad questions |
John, my notebook agrees with you on the M5. And Michael, at the most on a viola top, I am two tenths thicker than my violin tops. |
Topic: Violin top with dismembered left lower bout repair questions |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 7
Views: 7116
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:19 pm Subject: Violin top with dismembered left lower bout repair questions |
I generally remove wood rather than add it on a nice fiddle, if original varnish can be got to by shaving a tenth or two off the chewed faces.
You may have to shorten a rib or two afterward, so ques ... |
Topic: Violin wood specifications |
jacobyfineviolins
Replies: 7
Views: 12869
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 2:38 pm Subject: Violin wood specifications |
I can't say one matching is better than another, really. It depends on the skill of the maker.
I build my tops and scroll after my rib structure is done, and when I have the plate to a flexibility I ... |
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