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My dad came from a family of fiddle players but I was never around it but always wanted to be. I was a farmer until age 45 (soon to be 66) when financial problems forced me in to a 40 hr. pr week job ...

I did all the cutting one evening after work, and all the purfling the next evening, as I recall...but I may have done it all in one evening. I think it was two evenings. I use a small bending iron to ...

Sorry, it always takes me a while to think of what to say when I hear this...

Had my daughter read your reply. She said thanks for your kind words, and yes, she does hope to get a transplant but ha ...

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have a large, very close family. Two daughters, a son, and seven grand kids...

And I will not cop to celebrating holidays for the holiday, I'm really not a Holiday person. ...

I'm here lately, posting at this site, because I had a recent departure from the place where I used to post very regularly, about violin making.

In my opinion, it had become somewhat negative there ...