Studs are used behind cracks to provide reinforcement. If the crack was a clean one, and properly glued, they may not even be necessary. I bet you could remove half of these, though, and not miss them.… Read more »
Twisty
Here is what really bad top wood looks like. You can see the one on the left is growing straight, but the two in the middle are impossible. One objective in choosing tops is to find ones where the fibers run straight from one end to the other, and top wood is usually split out […]
Wood Aging
This is one of those things that I’ve always wondered about: how fast does wood darken, and how? The central stripe here, with three grains of wood, is a bass bar in a violin made in 1941. I had cut it halfway down (it was being replaced) and noticed that the soft grains to the […]
Dragon’s Blood
Supposedly, dragon’s blood resin is the result of a fight to the death between a dragon and an elephant. The elephant has wrapped his trunk around the dragon, the dragon entangles himself with the elephant, they fall and crush each other, and both die. Violin makers have a fondness for dragon’s blood resin as a […]
F-Hole Placement
Pictured is a diagram for the placement of f-holes on a Cremonese violin model. … Read more »
Cremonese Varnish Texture
Here are two examples of Cremonese varnish texture.… Read more »
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