Violin Forum/Message Board

I did think this topic was serious, but I've come to the conclusion that our collective leg is being pulled, and April 1 is 3 and a half months away. Osage orange? The only instrument I've ever seen m ...

I should refrain from commenting at all, since from where I'm sitting I can't touch or play anything that's being discussed, but I would suggest to you, mm, that simply making a violin brighter could ...

You seem to have a very "Mad Scientist" attitude about your work. Sort of a "you'll all pay someday! Fools! Fools!" excuse for lacking answers to realistic and important questions. ...

Having looked at your website you're not making violins anywhere in the ten figure range.

Ten figure range????? $1,000,000,000 That's a ten figure range.

I just sold a cello for $20,000. and wo ...

Because there's nothing about the wood that's changing other then the dampening being lessened. Everything else remains the same; mass; stiffness; appearance; smell; texture; etc.

You can't have it ...

Basically you have to trust the guy that what he's doing won't damage your instrument or wood, both in the short and long term. Short term is easy but how do you prove that it won't have an effect 50 ...

Yes, I've found a particular frequency that over time achieves what I've shown and makes wood sound unbelievably good.

In general, is this is your "Stradivarius" process?
That's correc ...

Michael... just for clarity...are the closed pits the gray ones and the open pits the black ones? I am not sure as it seems from what has been said that the pit membranes are all still intact in both ...

The electron-micro photos on your website (under webpage dealing with process), are these before and after photos of the same piece of wood, at the same location? If it is, then it looks like more ...

I suspect that if having the cell membranes removed made a noticeable difference, then we would all be using this "open" wood.

They are not being removed.

Mr Masterson:

This is a forum for sharing knowledge. It attracts makers trying to understand the processes that surround the making of violins, so we are by nature curious and deeply into the deta ...

Does your process use the application of far-infrared radiation? Is it placed in any sort of a gaseous chamber that would make the pit membrane deteriorate or shrink? Do you use atmospheric pressure ...

The fact the tonal aspects continually show the greatest improvement in the midrange and upper frequency bands really make me excited to try it on a violin.

Additional high frequency output is not ...

I haven't done a violin yet however wood is wood and I know the results are going to be every bit as spectacular.

...... you don't see many violins made of osage orange or mahogany, do you.
So, w ...

Can this be done on a finished violin? If so I would like to see what would happen.

Can you give names of people that have tried your treatment on violins so we could ask them what they thou ...