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A new way of making violins
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Came across this yesterday and thought it was very interesting, worth a watch

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@stringy -

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WOW, this is a great CNC tutorial! Β 

Loved the wood!

...loved the clamping forms.

I want one of these violins!Β 

Except I really want to hear someone play it (he barely stroked one string)

- I need to hear how it sounds.

Thanx for sharing this!Β 

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- Emily

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Really good video, amazing process.Β 

Shame he says he can't play it, after all that work.Β  Seems he would want to learn a little bit so he could try it out some (needs to come to this Forum!).Β 

It does look beautiful, though.Β 

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It appears to me that he is using a olive wood trunk β€œdisk” to make the rib/top block/tail block piece. Β If so, he is glueing the top and bottom plates to β€œend grain” on the ribs. Β This will cause a poor glue joint, given the microscopic β€œdrinking straw” matrix of the end grain. Β There are ways around this issue once apparent to the builder.

Similar could be done, and likely more effectively, using a band saw. Β No rib bending obviously would be required. Β And it may be possible to nest patterns one inside the other in a Russian Doll manner, to maximize use of the disk if one was building an array of different sized instruments.

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June 25, 2021 - 5:19 pm
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stringy said
Came across this yesterday and thought it was very interesting, worth a watch

I did notice that he is using Fiddlerman Strings. 😁

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@Fiddlerman - He also mentioned the Fiddler Shop Soundpost Clamp at 27:05 in video.

The old curmudgeon!

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JohnG said
@Fiddlerman - He also mentioned the Fiddler Shop Soundpost Clamp at 27:05 in video.

Cool!!! 😁

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