MikeC

Congratulations on completing the build. From the pictures, it looks good.

I was born by C Section, you can't really tell... except every time I leave a room I go out through the window.

looks good, maple gets all the attention since it has the most bling. Hard to tell from the picture but do you have corduroy texture? I did keep the texture on my last one but thinking of going for a more smooth non textured finish on the current one.

I saw a German Strad copy on TV once.. that's when I realized there is too much Saxon Violins on TV

Good luck! On my last one, it got too loose so I had to fill in the mortice and reset it. It takes a lot of fine adjustment.

You're doing better than I am. It said mine was worth $2k heh

yeah, I remember him now, I went browsing and found some old posts on emulsion varnishes.

Here's the PDF The Strad_emulsion_varnish_analysis.pdf

I read that article also, and ran it through ChatGPT. I'm having it generate a PDF now and will post it later. There used to be a member on here that talked a lot about emulsion varnish but he hasn't posted in a long time, maybe passed? people come and go. I'm not interested in trying an emulsion varnish for now but I would like to try a leaner varnish as a ground so the 2:1 is a mix I'll test on some scrap wood.

I'm hesitant to chime in on LLMs and AIs but I got a year in review... Apparently I'm in the top 3% of users, which sounds impressive until you realize there are millions of users so it's not so exclusive a club after all.

I have plenty of kaolin from the mines in Georgia, might have to try some on some scrap wood.

That is some wild looking grain! I like it!

I saw this thread 6 years ago. I liked the handle design so much that I decided to use it. I used 01 tool steel for the blades. These are strait edge but I made one curved not shown here. The blades are tapered 1mm tip to base so it's a friction fit in the handle. From the Morel article below

just trying a test image

just curious about the photo uploads, I uploaded a fingerboard pic. What file size are your images? if you want to email them to me, I can try to upload for you. PM me if you want my email address.