Preparing the back side(4th Kruse)

(material for back)

After thinking about which part of wood I should use for 4th violin’s back, I started to draw a line on the wood. This time I absolutely want to use these beautiful frames looks like prominence of the sun. But if I use them, I’ll get little bit irregular way of wood fiber’s lines. Usually wood fibers should be straight from neck side to the end pin side. This time my wood has strange fibers which are not straight at all. Because my wood is kilted cut, and Stradivari’s real violin is also using kilted cut wood. So, maybe it’s ok even though fibers are not straight. And it will be also a charming point of this violin, I think.

(Drawing outline along to the outline of Rib)

So, after drawing outlines of back, I started to cut it. But this material has 3cm thickness.
And cutting such a thick maple is really not easy (usually). Usually professional makers use band-saw which is wide belt type saw. But me, I cut this material by this usual electric saw. ^^) My Mr.E-saw was pretty cheap but he is really powerful. He can cut really tough maple board without difficulty. He is one of my treasure!! ^^)


After cutting off the shape of violin. How about this? Maybe it’s easier to imagine when this board becomes a violin’s back, right?! I like these frames, I’m pretty satisfied ^^)

(After cutting. How's this?)