My Observations (Large and Small) About Violin Making and Restoration
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Platform for a Post
Here’s another strange one. I didn’t open this violin, so it’s still there. As always, I have no idea what the person who did this thought he was going to accomplish. Posts and bars, perhaps because they’re not usually visible, seem to be common targets for violin vandals with ideas.
Musical Instruments Making Music
It’s nice to have music in the shop. This device was made to turn a wall into a speaker, by fastening it behind a wall to the wallboard. The round pads on the ends of the legs are glued to the wall, and the middle section is like the middle of a speaker, minus the cone, and presses against the wallboard,…
Nailing Down That Attribution
Understandably, violin makers like to be credited. The usual strategy is to put in a label under the left f-hole, and this violin has that. Just to be safe, Mr. Carletti also signed the top. Then, to be sure, he put another label on the upper block, visible only through the end pin hole. He didn’t put brands all over…
Exquisite
Here’s a repair! I guess someone felt that a shim was needed under the board. I’m not even sure what the fix was supposed to be fixing. From this view, outside, I couldn’t see what I was looking at. Removing the board, I found a spruce shim of sorts. I still don’t know what the mess on the edges was or…
Laser Scans of a Brothers Amati Arching
Corners and Edgework
Purfling Machine: Eight Views
This is the tool I designed and built over 20 years ago for cutting purfling grooves.
