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DonLeister · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 1:00 pm Post subject: Picture of the day

I am interested in seeing what others are up to, post a picture of something that interests you, or feel free to comment.
Sometimes pictures are self explanatory and other times they raise more questions.

I am shaping some corner blocks this morning and laying the mold on top of a -rib- outline/tracing of a Del Gesu.

kjb · Super Member Joined: 06 Feb 2013 Posts: 385

thanks, i am having to rethink my whole approach to corners and edge work.

rs · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:32 pm Post subject:

IMGP1871 by violinsbypaco, on Flickr

Hi, Don. I like your Del Gesu corners. It makes me want to start studying some del Gesu a lot more. Today I am working on this model of the Hellier. I am scooping out the back plate and about ready to start the top. The plate is still a little rough, but it's getting there.
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Ken Pollard · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:55 pm Post subject:

Don, I sure like the linings measures on your forms. I recall thinking that was a good idea back in Claremona, but forget it by the time I got back to a form of mine. Your photo has prompted me again.

RS Paco -- that is really amazing work.

I am in a more mundane state right now. I wanted to get better at bass-bars so have been putting them in everything I can. Three in the last couple of weeks. The photo shows two of them, one in a Bros. Amati violin I am making and the other in a 1936 "Hornsteiner", which came in the shop with an integral bar and badly gouged-out top.

And here's the "Hornsteiner" before cleaning up.

ctviolin · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:05 pm Post subject:

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ctviolin · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:33 pm Post subject:

Don
- Now I'm convinced - you are the man!
- for starting this photo thread.

I'll probably comment on some of these photos, when I get back home.
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Cliff Green · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:33 pm Post subject:

My favorite and most used tool

Yep, my bench made left handed, hand planed ten years before I started violins

DonLeister · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:38 pm Post subject:

I'm observing the bulge in the c bout rib, which I want to see.

ctviolin · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:18 pm Post subject:

Work in progress and finished fiddles.
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ctviolin · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:33 pm Post subject:

Yes a work in progress. Please don't acknowledge all of the visible flaws - like the gap in the lining - and the purfling errors - just ignore them ...
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ctviolin · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:43 pm Post subject:

- for the last twenty years or so I've been going down the highway about ten minutes from my house, where there is an old quarry where they used to get rocks for building...

This photo is from two days ago.

Every time I go there, there are foxes that come out and check me out - every time! its sort of amazing - there used to be a family of red foxes, then one day, grey foxes where there.
Two of them, looking like twins, came out this time, but I only took a photo of one of them (?) don't ask me why, in many ways I'm simply an idiot.

What does this have to do with violin making? well, once in a while you have to take a break and just go outside and let it all go......... I guess this is what I do when I need a break.

(Actually I'm photographing the rocks for the background, in a painting.)

OK, back to the grind for me - sorry for that.

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