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For shaping the belly you will need a good flexible scraper .Paul Sellers has a very useful article about sharpening scrapers this week .Perfect timing for you .Don`t miss that .

The guitar glue mistake reveals another way to use hot hide glue for bindings. The edge piece has to be shaped on a heater first .No way around that . But a few special spatulas would be necessary .If ...

Mike I had my own disaster with hide glue this week. I was fitting maple linings on a guitar back .This is the one that was smashed with a foot en route to me. The rosewood back was broken in 3 .So it ...

I looked back to page one at your inner mold which was a skinny one . My own molds were full thickness which helped with the final shape and depth of the ribs . So I would have to think through all ...

I magnified the picture and managed to see the very faint pencil marks . They were invisible before . For those areas try the damping method on the glue . Tape some cotton wool up against the wood ,b ...

I`m almost afraid to ask ,but what kind of glue are you using ?
How (or where) did you manage to have gaps?

Yes Happy Christmas. In England growing up there was a tradition from the BBC to have a few violin concerts mainly from Menuhin . Then some years ago they dropped that like a hot brick .Now musicians ...

I had not thought about Double Bass tuners but they are well established already . The pegs point down instead of sideways.Visually you can think of them like a cat with it`s ears pulled back ready fo ...

I asked one of the geared peg makers about the weight of 4 peg tuners .
Here is the ominous news . 46 grams .
I always assumed the downside of guitar style tuners at the scroll would be the tone ki ...

The maker has his site under his own name . But apart from nice pictures there is no real information about the oil finish . He also does French Polish on other instruments . Oh I forgot to say he mak ...

Some interesting meaurements to compare wooden pegs with tailpiece adjusters --and guitar tuners
weight of 4 wooden pegs =16,5 grams
4 guitar tuners =18.1 grams
That`s a ...

In a guitar site Christian Crevels builds a classical guitar and at the end uses an oil finish and it shows the direct simplicity of such an uncomplicated method . By the way it shows an excellent sho ...

Oh I get it .I had to look up Nope to see if the professionals were being rude to you . So they need to carry a motorised peg turner for the job . I`m sure some tat from Temu would keep them happy .
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I always thought that violin bushings were made of Maple but today the advertise boxwood bushings . How do they react ? Are they better than Maple .
Why did the professionals and peg turns give a ...

Something about this reminds me of the problem Menuhin experienced when he was about 16 yrs old.A gremlin on his shoulder seemed to asking him "How do I do all this?".It had an unnerving eff ...