Violin Forum/Message Board

Hi, is it possible to make your own rosin? Any recipes?? I play double bass and I´m never happy with comercial rosins.

Thanks!!

I´ll try it both tea and nitrite, and i´ll show the results and experiences.

Thanks Manfio!!!!

Nice photos and great color.
Where is posible to buy sodium nitrite? Powder?

Thanks

Very nice-- how does it sound? Is this your own pattern, or one you modelled after a particular existing instrument?

I used a shellac ground, then all oil varnish and glazes on the bass I made.
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Hi all,
I have just finished my bass. I´m quite pleased with the result but of course I´ll try the best to the next one.

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"Acqua di colla" is literally "glue water", that is, a very diluted glue. I make it this way:

I warm some water, 100 ml, put some glue (I don't weigt) and some alum (like a pin ...

Manfio, could you explain how to make the "acqua di colla"? I mean the proportion of hide glu, Alum, and water and the best way to mix them.
I have read about other people who had adherenc ...

Thanks jessupe!!!

It´ll be interesting experimenting with alum next time.
I´m learning very much in this forum, but sometimes is difficult to translate some words to spanish, specially technical ...

......with some alum. .....
I have found this,

http://naturalpigments.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=500-11ALM10

May be you knew allready but it looks interesting.

What properties adds alum to ...

Hello,
I have read this interesting post about the gelatin and I have two question.
1- What is the reason to use gelatin? Has gelatin any positive efect on sound?
2- What kind of gelatin is used?Th ...

I use a clothes-iron to warm the ebony through.
Do you apply the iron directly to the ebony?

Thank you

Hello,

It´s the first time I unglue a fingerboard. Could the Experts tell me any advise or procedure to do it? It´s bassically the same operation in all stringed instruments?

thank you

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Hello,
As you know I´m working in a Double Bass. Now I have it without any varnish (paint I think...). As I read In "to make a DB" by H.S.Wake, I put it on order (new sound post, bridge, s ...

Hello,
I´m the owner of a poellman double bass of 2001. It has been decorated with a marks, like scratches, that give it a beautifull old look.

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