Arching

Recently, my 4th violin making doesn’t look like proceeding. But, little by little, I’m still making it ^^;). For the moment, I’m in the making of back’s arch.
The other day, I made arch guides at first, they‘re copied from the poster of The Strad. I don’t have to make completely same as Stradivarius, but I want to make it close to the actual instrument.^^)

Making the arch is pretty interesting, it determines the outlook of the violin so much.
This time I’m using only small planes to make arch. It’s to make it carefully. It’s slow, but this arching is important factor to determine the outlook and sound. (Stradivari’s violin is well calculated, its volume of sound box is pretty important). But of course it should be beautiful too. To make people enjoy to look it.


But using only small planes is kind of tiring, and it makes water balls on my fingers.
Ouch!! the violinist’ s delicate finger got hurt, shit! ^^;) (I’m kidding, hehehe)

(It’s becoming violin shape. But this is still 50% of this process)