This time, I’m going to use nice spruce material which is from north Italy, called Abete Maschio. This material is from same place where Stradivarius took his material.(they say so) It looks great. But the thing is, it’s not cut at all. Usually materials for violin making are cut in the center of them. It’s to make splitting or cutting easier for users. (violin material for back and top is usually cut into pyramidal shape, and provider cuts its center) But the material which I got this time has no cut on its center. It means,(they mean) “Cut yourself”. No kidding. Hehehe!
Some wood sellers are sometimes lazy to cut them, so they sell woods without cutting. Last time I bought woods from Slovakia seller, at that time there was no cutting for back material. It was reaaaaaaally tough to cut it into two pieces.
But this time it’s for top material, usually people think it’s easy. Do you think so? It’s not. Even though it was spruce which seems easy to cut, it took muuuch time! Cutting by this kind of hand-saw, it’s pretty tough work!
While I was cutting it, I felt ”shiiiit, they should have cut this, it’s really easy cutting by machine-saw! They must be kidding.” Of course it was little bit easier than cutting maple though. ^^;)
While I was cutting it, I smelled the young wood from the top material. Since I studied about wood-chemical and wood physic at university, I can sense the young spruce smell. This Abete Maschio is supposed to be seasoned from 2001, but its inside seemed still pretty young. So I decided not use this material for my 4th violin. I ‘m going to use the other one which was seasoned for about 10 years. Of course this material should be more seasoned, but for the moment I don’t have other choice. Abete Maschio will be used for my 5th violin, probably ^^)
(I split the other one and glue the two pieces as you can seen in photo. )
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