Recently I was really busy with my work. Today, I’m gonna show you my recent work of making violin(my 4th violin).
How is making the violin’s back now? After I started making the arch of back, it took much time. Since I wanted to make precisely same arch than Stradivari’s violin, I took much time. But in some parts, arching guide didn’t match to my back. I wonder how much can we trust the arch from the poster(the Strad)?
(Because this time, I noticed few of arches’ lines were partly omitted in the poster.) So sometime I had to guess the lines from that poster. ~~;) Hmmm.
It’s kind of dangerous to follow 100% to the poster, isn’t it?
Anyway, finally finished the arching!! Fiouuu! It was already tiring though! For the moment, this back weighs 299g. It
’s little bit heavier than usual material. Since my 3rd violin guarneri model had 270g at this point. I wish I can make it lighter. Hopefully, final weight should be less than 120g. Even pretty thick guarneri model was 119g, so I want to make it less than 115g! (Am I hoping too much? ^^;) But violin should be lighter, heavy instrument makes us really tired easily.
Before curving inside, I've made many holes to guide curving. This is Henry Strobel method.(^^)
I started to curve inside of back, finally! ^^)
(I feel this time, it’s really taking much time. But it’s ok, it’s just for me, I don’t have to hurry.)
Curving inside with chisel, curving knife…mostly curving knife. And even inside, it’s still tough to curve. Maple is really hard! My hands hurt, and even my back has muscle ache! Hehehe!
Curving inside with chisel, curving knife…mostly curving knife. And even inside, it’s still tough to curve. Maple is really hard! My hands hurt, and even my back has muscle ache! Hehehe!
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