A couple of weeks ago I discovered that it was easy to shoot photos through my microscope by just jamming my cell phone camera up against the eyepiece, so I started looking for interesting things to shoot. Some of the varnish ground samples on bridges, shown in an earlier post, look pretty cool under the ‘scope. …
Over at the Maestronet forum I posted this photo of the collection of gouges I use, and I’m going to repost here what I wrote there. It’s easy to want to buy everything, but then you have to keep it all sharp. Here’s the list of what I regularly use: From the left: 30mm #7 …
One of the finest Stradivari violins in existence, the 1721 ex-Lady Blunt, is going to be auctioned in a couple of weeks at the Tarisio online auction site. Here’s a link to more about the auction, and some great photos. Last week the violin made a pass through Chicago, and we were able to see …
