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I have one of these, [http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60057852l] on two old base cabinets and it works well. 35.5 inches off the ground.

500 $, only if you borrow and make most of the tools. Good tools inspire bad tools waste time and materials and can lead to injuries. Ever busted a knuckle breaking a fastener loose with a cheap wrenc ...

That's it. It is available as a Dover reprint for not a whole lot of money: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486204251.html
There's a companion book about the Guarneri family that's not nearly as ...

Is this the Hill book you refer to?
Antonio Stradivari His Life and Work (1644-1737)
W. Henry Hill
Arthur F. Hill
Alfred E Hill

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Looks like a good start. Much further along than I am at this time.
Though I prefer more juvenile movie quotes like, "If I dressed like that I would have to kick my own !@#"

I turned the heat up and practiced on the scrap.
The higher heat made things happen faster and I realized I had cut the c-bout blanks too short. I was working too close too the ends trying too save m ...

I am bending c-bout violin ribs about 1.1 mm thick on a common aluminum bender.
Water will just jump off.
Thin stainless backing strap.
I have one bent so far not using water.
I have the second r ...

If your following the method Mr. Darnton noted via the Becker shop, the bar ends up 14mm minus the thickness of the top at the middle.

Here is a link to a Curtate Cycloid generator.

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/ccycloid/

To rejoin the ribs, maybe a spring type clothes pin or two lined with something that stop them from sliding off the corner without doing damage to the varnish or distorting the joint. Maybe thin strip ...

Some potential help here.

http://www.violins.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?t=451&highlight=neck

There is some good information in this thread.
http://www.violins.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?t=250&highlight=joint

Does the cylindrical shape help the top resist the forces of string tension, and the tendency of the neck projection to decrease?

I am new also. From what I have read and am beginning to experience, you need low angle light to show the humps and hollows and a very sharp scraper to remove the humps. On the recommendation of a mak ...