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fordraiders Junior Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Kentucky-Indiana
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: Trim around Top Plate; Edge of violin chipped |
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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 ?
Thanks
fordraider _________________ Mountan Music and tradtional string band music are my main interests. Keeping alive the old traditions. Getting into repair work on old violins. Love Tommy Jarrell;Roscoe Holcomb; Rayna Gellert; Heidi Clare, Owen "Snake" Chapman, Rhys Davies |
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Chet Bishop Super Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 678 Location: Forest Grove, Oregon
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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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. Made me feel good. |
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