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Congratulations Louis !!!

Hi Vernici Liutería If I can I will buy some luteola but I dont know nothing about plants and less of chemistry

Hi Only three violinist tested the violin and said it sound loud, speedy and even. So I am very happy. It is #7 I like a little more the sound of # 6 but anyway the goal was fulfilled Thanks for the compliments

Hi Jim The color is seemed to the real. Only few differences i some places. I cooked 100 hours the colophonia that have a subtle yellow hew. I mix in the third coat of vanish tube oil pigments : Indian yellow, alizarim crimson, blue and quincuasia gold in dust pigment. I like more the precedent violin . In this last case I mistakened with the quincuasia resulting a bit orange thas forced to me to change some the lasts coats and a subtle antiquing

Hi all After one difficult year,I finished my last violin. Soon well be another. Sorry the back. I don´t know how to rotate the photo. Regards

Hi Uncle Duke I had no luck with the Aloe Socotrino leaves. Very few drops fell down from the cut I made on the leaves. And the worse thing I lost that few yellow tears I collected. So, I begin now by second time. I will inform to Maestronet. Regards Tango

Hi Ctanzio I have two jars full of plaster prepared like Roger Hargrave explained in his Making a Doubble Bass. May I use that PoP in the way you wrote? Thanks for explanation Thanks for reply and thanks Joey too

Hi Ctanzio Saturated means : "with more water than plaster or more plaster than water"?

Hi all I am thinking to varnish my next violin with spirit varnish. As I always sealed the wood with plaster of Paris and oil and then varnished with oil varnish, I am in doubt if this would be a problem. Do you see any problem about that? I could change to plaster with water Thank in advance Tango

Hi Francesco I sealed the wood with Plaster of Paris and colophony oil varnish. This varnish have a beautiful subtle yellow hue. In the last violin some zones appeared some dark. May be it was my fault but I think that in the next I will seal with a more clear varnish for precaution. Regards Tango

Hi Conor Second coincidence in the in the night I guessed that a thick central zone of the back bring some inertia. Being thin it would be difficult. Very clear the analogy of the knife.

Hello Then I'm not that stupid, right? Haha Thanks Conor Russell

I was thinking to apply with a pad over the sealed wood with a some golden oil varnish

Thanks all for replies Tango

Hi all Does somebody use walnut hull (liquid) as a pigment for colouroing varnish? In Argentina we call "nogalina" (nogal = walnut) Regards Tango