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Trim around Top Plate; Edge of violin chipped

 
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fordraiders
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:59 pm    Post subject: Trim around Top Plate; Edge of violin chipped Reply with quote

To All,
Old Violin repair.
Around the edging of the top plate there a places where the edging has been chipped or broken off at some point.. Not to the point where it meet the purfling , but pretty close.

Is it a no-no to use wood filler very carefully once I have resealed the top plate ?

Or some other way to make look better...or just simply leave it alone ?

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Chet Bishop
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What I do in such cases is cut a bit of spruce with matching grain (as close as possible), and fit it into the gap. If it is really that close to the purfling, I cut away the slivers of the old wood, and mate the inboard edge of the spruce to the purfling.

Once it fits perfectly, , but high on all sides except the side toward the rib structure, I glue it in place.

When the glue is dry I carve and scrape that bit of edging to perfectly match what is on both sides.

Then I use watercolors and spirit varnish to match the apparent age of the surrounding wood, and finally, the varnish. Done correctly, no one will ever see it. To answer your original question, yeah, usually wood filler is frowned upon.

Once I replaced an entire broken off corner that way, and when the owner came to pick it up, he was looking at the wrong (unbroken) corner, trying to see the break. Smile Made me feel good.
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