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Can you sharpen? Can you make things flat and square using a block plane? If you don't have competency in basic woodworking and hand tool skills, that is where to start.

Violin octet - Wikipedia

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yep. certainly on the wholesale end.

It is a Vuillaume style frog seating, but the frog does not go with the stick. Finding a replacement frog will be difficult. The butt crack can be repaired, but it may not be worth restoration.

Hard, brittle varnish. Dirt can cover a lot.

Altered by someone. Look for reprints or scans of Sears and Roebuck Catalogs and you will see representations of the back of the scroll.

It simply means that they don't necessarily agree with the attribution. They have to believe, to Jason's satisfaction, that what they are selling is what the certificate says that it is. Francais Certs, especially from his later years, can be fraught with inconsistencies.

looks like the one I have, right down to the engraved aluminum metal work. It has always seemed more german than anything, to me.

From what I can tell from your posts, you are a bit of a "newbie" to violin making. If you continue you will find that there are many things that you need or want that are not manufactured here and there is no real domestic substitute for.

it was Fodor polish, for a friend (i don't care for it). 4 small containers of it. It seems, upon further probing, that multiple tariffs were "stacked". I was expecting 25%, but not that!

25% right? Nope. I just paid duties and tariffs on a small order from Canada. The order was $190US, the Tariffs were $261.31. Surprised but not.

I received a call this morning from a fellow maker who is friends with Gary. He had a rather significant stroke last week and is not in good shape. His family set up a GoFundMe for him. Please help if you can: Fundraiser by Dylan Vessel : Help Support Gary Vessel’s Stroke Recovery

Does it have a bow?