Violin Forum/Message Board

James....I did purchase the £60 exhibition book and have no regrets. It is very well produced with excellent photos of all the instruments in the exhibition. As I'm quite close to Oxford, I shall ...

I visited the Stradivari Exhibition today, which is on for 2 months in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, U.K. (I'm fortunate to live only 50 miles from there).
There are 21 Strads on display, includi ...

pmmcombs....I have had the same problem as you in that I find it difficult to see the chalk on the bar, but the trick seems to be to try all sorts of viewpoints when looking at the bar....I hold it so ...

Mr. Darnton......I just fitted a bar in a yard-sale fiddle that I'm repairing and I followed your suggestion to get the best fit I could visually first and only going to light chalking towards the end ...

Mr. Darnton...many thanks. A 20 minute fitting time is certainly something for me to aim at ! I'm partly relieved at your suggestion that 3-4 hours is a reasonable time. I've just got the glue dryi ...

I have fitted several violin bassbars and a few tonebars on archtop fretted instruments, but I'm still very slow and not very good at it. I try very hard to achieve a smooth inner surface on the top ...

Well, I'm getting on fairly well with the new neck.....the scroll is underway and the pegbox is 80% excavated. I'm still looking at the broken-off scroll from the first neck though, and something ou ...

Thanks Mr. Darnton for the basswood suggestion. I have some and will use it....John

Thanks to all for replies. As Fiddledoug says..."it's not a fast or easy task". I'm going to have to be especially careful at the shoulder faces of the ribs where they join the new neck si ...

Hello to all and I'm new to this (excellent) forum. I'm an amateur maker with 3 violins completed and now building no 4 . The body is complete and I finished and fitted the neck (but hadn't glued ...

Just introducing myself. I'm located in the UK, and am on my 4th and 5th violin builds. I also make guitars and carved top mandolins....all strictly as an amateur. I hope to be able to contribute t ...