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You have a way with wood Anders, it talks to you. Keep them coming for our enjoyment and posterity. I'll be making another documentary of the building of an Anders violin in a few years.
I'll be making another documentary of the building of an Anders violin in a few years.
Then you have to be very patient. Its a very slow process. Sometimes I just sit for hours scraping and very few things happen besides listening to some whalesongs or indian mantras turned into mystical new age pop.
Starting the work on the soundboard of the violin. So here´s some really crusty and rustic work. Cut cut into two pieces. Next time I will visit my local carpenter and ask if I may use his big bandsaw. This is spruce and it goes reasonably well. But cutting down along the grain on a piece of flamed maple is not going to be fun. Also, since you have to cut from both ends, its difficult to make it straight. But it came out well enough.
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well, I listened to some of the new age mystic pop music that Sole left me. It gave me the inner peace needed to cut straight without looking. (it actually works... kinda scary)
That's insane! By hand?!?! Your an animal! I cut a piece of lumber by hand for the first time in years the other day and it looked like a stock market graph. I'm very dependent on power tools.........
No no, I was just to lazy to go out of my house and then I thought. Oh well, here I have a nice saw that I hardly ever use. Lets try it. It went well, but next time I´l ask the local carpenter to use his bandsaw.
So next thing was to joint the two bookmatched pieces for the soundboard. There I used my guitar setup and a wedge to keep the jointing surface 90 degrees to the table:
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So, here´s a picture of the joining of the belly or top. I´m using my guitar setup. I just ´finetuned it with some blocks of wood a 3 screws. There´s no need to complicate life.
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Here I am. Cutting the f-holes on a cutting V. The thing I like the most about building a violin is that its quiet and slow. I love that. Good for listening to music and besides, strongly prefer cutting and scraping over sanding.
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Thank you for the thread Anders. Very fun to follow and I like how you let the pictures do the talking. Someday I will build a violin too. Tomorrow I am visiting a violin maker here in Bogota, Colombia, his name is Vicente Larrain, I'm really excited. Keep up the good work!
Oh yes, the plan is to show pictures with f holes and everything. And dont worry, Im not making perfect f holes. Just good old fashion f holes, more or less correct size.
Instruments of the violin family only has 1 brace. The bass bar. Its below the bass side foot of the violin bridge.
Its standard procedure to use chalk to fit the bass bar. You put chalk on the inside of the soundboard and rub the bass bar over it. The you cut away the parts of the bar where there´s chalk left untill you reach a point where the whole bar has chalk on its gluing side. Then its ready to be glued.
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Its been great watching you build this violin i have never seen how its done before really interesting im sure it will sing . I have always loved the violin since i heard Jon Luc Ponty many years ago .
Just wanted to say its a thing of beauty you are very talented .
Here I am. Cutting the f-holes on a cutting V. The thing I like the most about building a violin is that its quiet and slow. I love that. Good for listening to music and besides, strongly prefer cutting and scraping over sanding.
Great to see a smile on you face Anders? Another boat plan on the left?
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Thanks both of you. The boat is built and its not going to be used at least not for now...... I´m cutting down on everything except building musical instruments. I will start building steelstring acoustic guitars very soon.
@ anders, That could be a very good idea! I think that from the 100 guitar players, 60 has an accoustic-,30 has an electric-, 9,5 has a classic-, and 0.5 has flamenco guitar.
RE: Building violin no. 1 (in reply to gerundino63)
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@ anders, That could be a very good idea! I think that from the 100 guitar players, 60 has an accoustic-,30 has an electric-, 9,5 has a classic-, and 0.5 has flamenco guitar.
From my impression with large audio boards ( atists, bands, recording situations ) position No. 1 and 2 should be swapped.
At least in America, when people say "Guitar" they seem to associate an electric.
2 different reels with the same name. Toss the feathers. The violin is the one I made earlyer this year from a Stewmac kit. Its an ok violin, but when you build professionally then you cant live with playing a kit instrument. I know its snobby, but it just doesnt feel right. And thats the reason I´m building a violin from scratch.
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