The Silverton School Cello approaches completion.
It looks more like a cello each day. I plan to
put on to clothes I wore on day in March when
I posed on the roof with my cello rib working
tool:
...but posed with the completed cello in hand.
Before and After
As with transforming anything that I have worked on, it has also been a transformation of self. From September 29th 2007, with the wish to have a cello to fix up for the house for guests to play, I unintentionally became a luthier.
Early in October 2007 my eBay prize arrived. The neck was a little crooked, indicating a broken neck block and poor seams on the upper bouts. Had the paint stripper that someone had used in refinishing atta
Arrrrgh!
The post office broke a violin I thought I had securely packed.
- I placed wedges of styrofoam under the bridge
- material under the tuners to protect the belly.
- The instrument was strung with the sound post up.
- I had wrapped the body of the violin to take up
slack in the old case
-I wrapped the case with bubble and placed it in an oversized box.
There has been a big looseleaf binder on the floor next to my favorite chair
that collects my favorite references for violin building. I has grown unmanagable.
I have decided to extract the most important that I view daily in a slimmer binder
and perhaps a folder for each current project. What's in the binder?
-Records of the density of wood I encounter.
-Data on weight of string instruments and their com
I've learned so much since I built this first composite violin that I had to go back and correct a few things.
Redeemed was completed in Nov 2008. The fingerboard fell off after a few weeks and in January of 2009
the neck popped off. There was a learning curve to working with hyde glue and being timely with clamps.
This summer I noticed a crack in the top under the fingerboard. An old repair had come undone.
My agenda:
