Violin making(4th) the Kruse

In spite of this blog is violin making diary, for the moment there's no article about making violin. Somebody might say this kind of thing, today I'm going to write about present violin making. ^^)
This time is my 4th time of violin making. This time I'm going to make a copy of Stradivarius 1721 "Kruse"'s violin.
I don't make usual way of violin making like completely symmetrical type. Usually, especially modern violin makers like to make completely symmetrical in right and left side. But even the Stradivarius's violin is not complete symmetrical. The shape of right side and left side is little bit different. I think This is also important factor of making nice sound.

So, this time I made a mold from the table side of Stradivari 1721. And I glued 4corner blocks and upper and lower blocks.



















And make flat surfaces of each blocks, because at first each blocks don't have correct hight. I used small planes (I use both Japanese type and western type. ), make their hight 30mm to 31mm.



















And shave corner blocks. But this time I curved only inside of C-part. Because I have an idea not to distort the shape of corner blocks by curving each side of C-part and others.
It's little bit difficult to explain in words, but anyway usually people complete the shape of corner blocks at this process.

Next step is preparing the Ribs. Nest part is pretty tough and I don't like it, but no other choice. I just do my best. Hehehe!