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MANFIO Super Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Sao Paulo
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: My latest instrument, "Fanny Mendelsohn" |
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Hi! This is my latest instrument, a 16 inches viola which I named "Fanny Mendelsohn", Felix's sister, she was also a fine composer. Thanks again to Andrès Lepage for the photos and for test driving the instrument.
Here we go:
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violinarius Member
Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 171
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Very nice work! Thanks for letting us see this.
Can you comment on how you treat the bare wood on the neck.
Is it the same as all the rest of the instrument? |
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MANFIO Super Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Sao Paulo
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! I apply some tea to the neck, perhaps some tea with 4% sodium nitrite, followed by UV box. Then it get some dirt while I'm varnishing the instrument. Then I follow with linseed oil. The linseed oil seems to foster the UV box effect, sometimes it get a bit darker than I want. _________________ www.manfio.com
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Mikes Member
Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 80 Location: Vermont, USA
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Always a treat Manfio! This one looks much wider in the bouts what effect does that have? |
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Dave Chandler Super Member
Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 691 Location: Mt Mitchell in North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: Latest |
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Manfio:
You said "Then it get some dirt while I'm varnishing the instrument. Then I follow with linseed oil. "
Can you explain the dirt? What do you do with the dirt, are you simply rubbing it into the pores of the wood on the neck?
As an aside -- I've read one way to smooth the neck is with a piece of rounded steel. I did this on my most recent, I take the back side of one of my gouges and rub the wood vigorously, it seems to close the pores of the wood and makes it smooth as glass. Maybe you'all are doing this already (parden my NC mountain twang). _________________ Dave in the Blue Ridge
Southern Violin Association
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MANFIO Super Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Sao Paulo
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! Yes, this model is smaller (40.8, 16 inches) but I kept the same width of my big models to get the sound I want, so they are really "fat".
About the neck. The bare wood of the neck gets some of the dirt of our hands while we are manipulating the instrument, it helps to develop a colour and an age appeareance, the dirt will serve only to give colour to the neck, but it comes from our hands.
I use fine sandpaper on the neck. Yes, sometimes I burnish the neck/fingerboard region with a burnisher. _________________ www.manfio.com
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caeman Member
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Now that is a pretty instrument. Good show! |
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MANFIO Super Member
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Leif Luscombe Site Admin
Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126 Location: Mount Elgin, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for sharing. Your work is admired by all here. _________________ Leif Luscombe
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MANFIO Super Member
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