Not a Help!
Gluing on a fingerboard is not a hard job. But in this case there’s a school of thought that believes in making easy jobs hard.
Making Scrapers
Set up correctly, a scraper should be able to pull shavings just like a plane. If all you are getting is dust, something is wrong.
What’s Inside?
You are probably slightly aware of something moving around inside your violin, but here’s how it starts, as a mess in some deep corner.
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
Workshop, the Wi-i-ide view!
Here’s a wide view of my violin making and restoration workshop, with a link to view the image full size.
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Pinpricks and Dimples
There’s a tool in Stradivari’s collection of tools that’s designed to prick depth marks to be used in the graduation of the plates. It looks somewhat like the sketch above, which is a drawing of the device I made for use in my own shop. It is used to punch holes to a depth that
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