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  Topic: 350 year old approach to violin making
seammc

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PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:23 am   Subject: Hill
When reading Hill;
For concept only ...Plates,Think of making a steel drum.as found in central America....different areas, different tones (knock values)

area size will define the sound and thickn ...
  Topic: 350 year old approach to violin making
seammc

Replies: 1
Views: 3844

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:51 am   Subject: 350 year old approach to violin making
Acoustic tuning: http://www.instrumentmaking.keithhillharpsichords.com/areatuning.0.html

This can be found on the Keith Hill site (difficult to understand)

I tried a build on a cheap kit and fin ...
  Topic: 1692 Falmouth
seammc

Replies: 7
Views: 8409

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:52 pm   Subject: Re: Falmouth
Is this the violin you're referring to? Second link (dated 2013( indicates new owner is a Swede and on loan to concertmaster at Dallas Symphony. Length is 356, so I guess its a big "slip" ...
  Topic: 1692 Falmouth
seammc

Replies: 7
Views: 8409

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:13 pm   Subject: speculation and nothing more
The mold designated as #3 is a possibility in the Strad mold articles...the year is right and shows little use....who knows ???&?

The third Carteggio description is:

No 3: forma di cui si ve ...
  Topic: 1692 Falmouth
seammc

Replies: 7
Views: 8409

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:51 pm   Subject: I am aware of this
I have looked at this in the recent past And thanks

the pictures carry a lot of info but we don't get to see the mold ...to bad! Smile
  Topic: 1692 Falmouth
seammc

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Views: 8409

PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:26 am   Subject: On loan to Leonidas Kavakos
thanks .....I believe that this is not up to date
While he had it ...much beautiful music happened
  Topic: 1692 Falmouth
seammc

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PostForum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum   Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:27 am   Subject: 1692 Falmouth
Does any one have any info on this willow the wisp violin ...was it a Strad 'one off'?
all that I have found is -Conversation-with-Violinist-Leonidas-Kavako

Jim
  Topic: Making My First Bow, also.
seammc

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Views: 17413

PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:45 pm   Subject: first bow
it's about time.... go slow ...don't get impatient and don't be afraid to let it rest over night. wood has a memory and that memory needs time to adjust

Jim
  Topic: Does anyone oil their bows?
seammc

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PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 10:19 am   Subject: oiling bows
I have come to think that oiling a bow may make the bow 'rubber like' (depending on the oil chosen) and only come into it's own in about 25 years

I will take some time to determine if this is reall ...
  Topic: The very essence of bow making (a Hail Mary)
seammc

Replies: 22
Views: 19683

PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:05 pm   Subject: drum
nice job

Jim
  Topic: The very essence of bow making (a Hail Mary)
seammc

Replies: 22
Views: 19683

PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:55 am   Subject: drum
WOW
I like your wooden plane

I have made a couple and they are easy to make

Jim
  Topic: bow rehair (misc)
seammc

Replies: 16
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PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 1:53 pm   Subject: bow rehair 1925 article
Found this ..Popular mechanics

http://books.google.com/books?id=DNsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=violin+bow+ferrule&source=bl&ots=0ExWMXZpnK&sig=TcR6zGELCL8qH08Aq9KNs_lN_5 ...
  Topic: The very essence of bow making (a Hail Mary)
seammc

Replies: 22
Views: 19683

PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:39 pm   Subject: John Bolander's booklet
Most curious... when he started out he had to make his own tools, under his teachers eye ...that was the way it was done years ago ...unheard of now

That is how My grandfather learned to be a blac ...
  Topic: The very essence of bow making (a Hail Mary)
seammc

Replies: 22
Views: 19683

PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:31 pm   Subject: 400 degrees?
I think you can make charcoal at that temp (in a retort)
Jim
  Topic: The very essence of bow making (a Hail Mary)
seammc

Replies: 22
Views: 19683

PostForum: Bow Making Forum   Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:12 am   Subject: Re tempering
Quote: The subject of tempering seems to have caused some confusion.

so it would seem. For me tempering means establishing a memory (or maintaining a memory) ... I can see another mini lab coming I ...
 
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