christian bayon

I’ll try to go near, arching is extreme on the top, but the original sounds beautifully, so, let’s take more risks, I’m 70

Starting my copy of the viola by Domenico Busan "ex Giuranna” Venice 1781. Meeting with the original for the first time since 1995 and 1979.

I always wondered if it was makeup or fragments of the wiring of the strings, because I found it too on violin plaid by men.

My dear master and mentor would have been 100. https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/les-essentiels/centenaire-du-luthier-etienne-vatelot-de-yehudi-menuhin-a-mstislav-rostropovitch-2021843

Not impossible, the brand is looking good and between Francois and Nicolas, the style had such a big evolution! Nicolas in Orleans.

Just bought one, works well for a violin-maker/traveler

Nice varnish texture on the spruce!

Easy to fix by the maker.

Right advice. The varnish seems to be oil varnish, some of them never get hard or dry enough. Instruments by Charles Enel, for example, had still issues after 50 years.

Agree completely, LOB up to 360 are not unusual on that school.

Very sad news, Patrick Robin left us yesterday, after a tough battle with illness .

Is the file and sandpaper use to make the FF holes normal for cremonese makers of today or it’s a personal technique ?

Back to my usual model.

Yes, I was just pointing that I don’t make artificial marks or wearing on the edges for exemple, but colour variations can be considered as antiquing. For me it’s a way to give life what I’m not able with a very uniform varnish.

Back to my favourite inspiration.