One of the tool skills that many people struggle with is sharpening scrapers. Set up correctly, a scraper should be able to pull … Read more »
Michael Darnton is a violin maker, restorer, writer and teacher who lives in Chicago...
One of the tool skills that many people struggle with is sharpening scrapers. Set up correctly, a scraper should be able to pull … Read more »
Note: Sadly, the 2020 SCVMW workshop had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. For the last fifteen years I have been teaching … Read more »
This step-by-step photo-essay is possibly the most extensive photo set of the violin making process on the web. Here you can see the entire process starting with the form all the way through the final assembly. I set up a camera and tripod in my shop and shot this series back in 2003.