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Jeremiah Junior Member
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Montana
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject: A knot in my violin top |
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Sometimes I find surprises inside my engelmann spruce. I thought this one looked nice.
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Chet Bishop Super Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 678 Location: Forest Grove, Oregon
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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Is that #22? I am looking forward to seeing it. It is really interesting seeing freshly scraped spruce under magnification-- I had no idea how rough it looked. I wonder how people will respond to the knot? Some people really like anomalies like that. Others act as though you have tried to sell them a steak that was past its pull-date.
Did #21 sell, or is it still in the shop? That was a real beauty...just my opinion.
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Moodivarius Junior Member
Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Dryden, ON
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: A knot in my violin top |
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Trying to embed photos.
No luck. _________________ Scott, a.k.a. Moodivarius
www.moodivarius.com
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Jeremiah Junior Member
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Montana
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Chet Bishop wrote: | Is that #22? I am looking forward to seeing it. It is really interesting seeing freshly scraped spruce under magnification-- I had no idea how rough it looked. I wonder how people will respond to the knot? |
This is #23... #22 is about 3 days behind it but will probably get varnished first. They'll get displayed on my website probably mid or late June.
This is actually scraped spruce with the grain raised by wetting, and what looks like grain lines, but too close and fine to really be grain lines... actually are the grain lines. The grain spacing on my spruce is over 50 grains per inch in most places. The density of this wood is just over that of balsa... the completed top with bassbar and 3.1mm thick between the F's weighs just 60 grams and rings an F#.
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Did #21 sell, or is it still in the shop? That was a real beauty...just my opinion.
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It's still for sale. The tone is slightly edgy for some people, so it may take time to sell. Plus it's in a shop in Spokane... I'll be making a trip out to Portland here mid-June and may put it in a shop there where more people can play it.
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Jeremiah Junior Member
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Montana
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: A knot in my violin top |
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Moodivarius wrote: | I think it looks interesting.
Gives it a signature that no other one will duplicate.
Take a look at one of Stradivari's early violins. "Tullaye" c.1670
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Now THAT violin has knots in it! Maybe I should try that sometime... but probably only the old fiddlers would want the resulting violin!
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MANFIO Super Member
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Sao Paulo
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Jeremiah Junior Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Here's the finished violin, #23; http://jeremiahsviolins.com/violin.html
I'm very happy with the sound and playability so far but the violin is only a couple hours old or so right now.
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Jack Rushing Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Jeremiah, #23 is very nice. I especially like the scroll and the neck. |
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MANFIO Super Member
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Jeremiah Junior Member
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks...
I made a mistake bandsawing the scroll and I decided to salvage the wood... the scroll is 2mm narrower than I intended as a result. It would look much nicer to my eye if that hadn't happened. This whole violin was an exercise in using up old tonewood that I had laying around for years. I'm completely surprised at just how good this thing plays and sounds!
It seems that around 8 years ago I was going to use this very wood and make a violin when I was visiting Leif Luscombe in Canada, but he didn't think it would make a very good sounding violin so I didn't use it. Leif would probably have been correct, at that time... but I must have learned alot about how to get good sound between then and now.
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MANFIO Super Member
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Jeremiah Junior Member
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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There's a reason I don't carve my scrolls too deeply. I heard at violin making school that Strad didn't carve his deeply, and I'm making a Strad model violin. I've also looked at some of Strad's scrolls and I haven't found a reason to believe otherwise. However, if I had modified the proportions of this 2mm narrow scroll a bit more, I could have made it look alot more "right".
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