I must correct myself (after note from Dave Cohen who knows this stuff more than most folks here). I tried to simplify my wording and somehow it can...
I was the one who suggested the additoinal brace in the other thread. But the situation was that he cut the area thinner and feared it would deform....
Many of these "matte" or "satin" finishes are not real satin, but rather ordinary gloss finish applied with fine gun to create final surface with no...
One shuld keep in mind that thickness of the neck is big factor. Pre-trussrod Gibsond had quite chunky shorter necks (the ovals) with hard maple core...
I use heat shrink tubing all along the truss rod except the parts that are exposed. I try not to get glue on the rod even though it wouldn't stick to...
I can see the wood in OP doesn't just have sealed ends but is whole dipped in wax. In that state any drying or stabilisation would take forever. Wood...
To answer Roger's question I add a link to panel presentation of "Strad 3D" which shows direction to where the modern violin making is going (this is...
A bit late, I somehow missed some replies in this interesting thread. We derailed a bit as OP asked about tuning strategies and thicknesses of bars....
I shoot for 3/16" (4.7 mm) final thickness. But I resawed a cello fingerboard blank into mandolin once, and even though I tried to saw as thin pieces...
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