Violin Forum/Message Board

Can the carbon fiber be layerd with hardwood, and maintain the properties that are desirable?

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 ...

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.

Thank you Michael, and Luis. Nicely illustrated.

I love the satisfaction of solving a tonal problem on one of my own fiddles! Feels great! Cheers!

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 ...

No need, I think. As long as your mortice is 7 mm deep or so.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...