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Topic: purfling before or after plates glued to ribs |
JWH
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:01 pm Subject: purfling before or after plates glued to ribs |
Having trouble posting pictures. I know if you highlight the part of the address HTTP---jpg, you can copy and paste in the URL address bar, but how do you embed the picture? |
Topic: purfling before or after plates glued to ribs |
JWH
Replies: 14
Views: 14211
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:44 pm Subject: purfling before or after plates glued to ribs |
"S'me. I discovered from making baroque violins that to induce the amount of distortion you see in Cremonese outlines by twisting a bad neckset you'd have to be very bad at putting on the neck--l ... |
Topic: Neck Reset ?? pic 2nd try |
JWH
Replies: 39
Views: 41735
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:13 pm Subject: Neck Reset ?? pic 2nd try |
The neck appears to be locked in around the lip of the top. This may be more than just a tight 90 degree fit. The mortice may be angled outward as you move in toward the block and the neck (tenon) i ... |
Topic: How deep does the neck go into the block? |
JWH
Replies: 12
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:14 pm Subject: How deep does the neck go into the block? |
That neck root angle and it's relationship to the finished angle which Michael is referring to can be determined trigonometrically. An example would be using the distance in height of the ribs and th ... |
Topic: new looking old viola |
JWH
Replies: 41
Views: 38820
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:56 pm Subject: new looking old viola |
"JWH you give the impression that you don't understand how violin identification works. Your imputation of faith-based thinking to 'pro-Messiah' experts seems patronizing and, if indeed it comes ... |
Topic: new looking old viola |
JWH
Replies: 41
Views: 38820
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:38 pm Subject: new looking old viola |
I think some of you think I am out to terrorize other people's belief system and I am not. I just think there has been room for error with this particular instrument and one should question it's auth ... |
Topic: new looking old viola |
JWH
Replies: 41
Views: 38820
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:59 pm Subject: new looking old viola |
"Interesting train of "logic": "Because I don't like the people who handled this dollar bill, it's a fake." I hope you're not involved in any branch of the sciences, JWH" ... |
Topic: new looking old viola |
JWH
Replies: 41
Views: 38820
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:40 pm Subject: new looking old viola |
Hi Jeffery:
I only accept the notion that the Messiah may have been Stradivari's but surrounded by great controversy, there's a question mark in my head about it's authenticity. I am not an expert ... |
Topic: new looking old viola |
JWH
Replies: 41
Views: 38820
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:28 pm Subject: new looking old viola |
"For reference, here's the best-preserved, most original Stradivari violin in existence:"
We think...........Provenance................Antonio Stradivari.........Paolo Stradivari......... ... |
Topic: bass bar shape |
JWH
Replies: 23
Views: 31630
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:40 pm Subject: bass bar shape |
Has anyone read the article by Peter Zaret, "How to Judge if a Violin has a Good Tone?"
http://www.zaretandsonsviolins.com/goodtoneviolin.html
Here he describes tone with all the descri ... |
Topic: bass bar shape |
JWH
Replies: 23
Views: 31630
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:50 pm Subject: bass bar shape |
Thanks, Michael.
I don't have Jeff Loen's book and can't comment much about it, except to say that if it is strictly a pictorial publication without discussion, then, as you say, we are unaware of ... |
Topic: bass bar shape |
JWH
Replies: 23
Views: 31630
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:21 pm Subject: bass bar shape |
This is a graduation question and not a bar question, Michael, but are you a proponent of thick-to-thin starting from the center of the arch to the edge, or thin-to-thick?
Noting a CAT scan some time ... |
Topic: bass bar shape |
JWH
Replies: 23
Views: 31630
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:38 pm Subject: bass bar shape |
It's an immensely complicated subject. I think many of us for lack of data try and visualize the effects that a bar has on the top. Essentially a bass bar moves up and down by the rocking of the bri ... |
Topic: bass bar shape |
JWH
Replies: 23
Views: 31630
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:15 pm Subject: bass bar shape |
Good article, Jeffery. One I hadn't read before.
Would love to see a good study on this subject. Maybe, I'll start the mind-numbing process of switching out a couple hundred bars on a single inst ... |
Topic: bass bar shape |
JWH
Replies: 23
Views: 31630
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Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:38 pm Subject: bass bar shape |
I would love to know the dynamics of a bassbar contour and how it fits in with different models of instruments.
What I see even today is talk about how a bassbar contributes to sound but no good st ... |
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