Receiving 2nd Masakichi Violin

So, I bought the 2nd Masakichi Violin(No.3010), even though I had already two violins! When I received it, the case was really old and looked broken. When I opened the case, it had old smell of stuff. You know, smell like inside of garage?! ^^;) But I like it, because it makes me imagine it was sleeping in a garage for a long while and finally it could get out of there! And destined to came to my place...

(The label is really old and it's almost going away from violin)

It's varnish was really old and weak. When I scratch by my finger nail, I could easily remove it... It means I have to be careful not to damage. And also it had a crack on back side and ribs and lower block(which contains end pin usually) were getting out of shape of violin. It little bit difficult to explain in words... I mean, back side(lower block area) was peeled off from block, block and ribs were pulled by the tension of strings, so they were kind of distorted.

Anyway, I tried to play on this violin. I put new strings on it, and made new bridge, new pegs...etc...
Well, it's time to play!
(I was little bit anxious about the tension of strings though ^^;)
I tried to play the violin...
...
...
Waao. the sound is pretty good. (I thought)
And probably it sounds better than the other Masakichi violin.
This one doesn't sound like cheap kind of steel sound...

"OK, let's bring this to next lesson! "(Hey, you're not supposed fix it before?! )

I showed it to my teacher...she said,
"It looks pretty old this time."
Hihihi! I know!
But there were not much comment about the sound of this violin. I know, the player's technique is still not enough though...

Anyway it really looks like needs fixing. So I decided to fix it. But I didn't have any good idea about it...
I needed to think about it, for a while....
(I liked to play this violin a lot! Hihihi, these animals are my cocktails, they like to stay on my head when I play violin^^)