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Hi. Thanks you all for useful information. Viola D´amore. You scare me :). Y sincerely thank you for your caveats. I was thinking to use gloves and mask but now I will read more about safety. For the first stage on a white violin I was thinking to make half a litre of very diluted glue with a little spoon of Potassium Dicromate. What do you think? Of course I will try first in crap wood.

Hi This is my first time. Do you seal the wood before apply dicromate? I will test in crap wood first with seal and without. Thanks in advance for any advise. Regards Tango

Hi Louis As always you are very kind . Tango

Thanks Mampara

Hi Louis I am deciding the meassurements of a viola I will make soon. I was reading your post because you make violas with sucssess; so I have faith in your words. The past year was asking about some imformation about meassurements to make a 40,3 cm viola .Now, the mould, has blocks glued . They will be about 37 mm (when finished). Question: Are brecian´s archings prone to bring a warm sound? I don´t like violas with violin sound. Regards Tango

Hi Mampara What is the powder added near the final stage? (Sorry, I speak spanish)

Hi. I seal the wood with plaster of Paris miced with oil varnish. The only lycopodium I know is an homeopatic remedi

I was thinking about a drop of cyanocrilato.

Hi Do you fill the knots of maple, why how ? Thanks in advance Tango

Hi Nathan Have the fractional cellos, a medium size (1/2), a different projection. I repaired a 90 cm one. It looked me very hight at that moment.

Hi Nick. I think the following post (mine) is very related with this post. I agree with David too. Posted January 6 Hello all I tested my last violin with an expert collector and concertmaster. The test was successful so we compared with another violin, a well reputed and more experienced luthier than me. The sound of the other instrument seemed to be more powerful but really I don´t know if what I heard was some "hall sound" (resonanse?) . The sound of my violin is heard all outside the box. The other seems to be played in a subtle resonance chamber. The sound is nice in both. After thinking some, the violinist say to me: "I guess this violin would sound more (mine). May be it due to be new or it suffer exesive tension IE: a little large soundpost. The next step would be test both in a theatre but I see difficult to repeat the experience. I did nothing from that day because I went for hollydays but in few days I will be at the shop. What do you think about violins when you hear the sound all outside of the box or when you hear the box like a "little hall". I guess some hall resonance is better. Thanks for any thoughts Regards, Tango

Hi I was reading the Hargrave´s article and some post of Ben Hebbert interesting article. But I was some lost. I need to read McLennan Thesis. Thinking about gut strings and a maple fingerboard I realise that bassbar must be reduced. But how? Watching at old bassbar I see that are lower and I guess a little shorter. As I see, in Buenos Aires, "baroque´s musicians" don´t care about historical set up for there instruments as they use, in some cases, standart modern strings or modern instruments with baroque bridge and tailpiece. Further, as there are no standar meassurements (ie: bassbar) in antique violins, I will think and take desicion of my own, adapting to the more common use in my country. I have in mind a Guadagnini sample and now see in thread the Mesias one; further others in Ben Hebbert thread. Don´t know why but I like the Mesias one. Thanks to all for responses Tango

Hello I am working on a modern violin but now I want to change the proyect making a baroque one. I didn´t make the neck yet I had just finished the bassbar (modern) but I didn´t glued the top to the box. So I could shape the bassbar as baroque but I am not sure about the shape. Is there any concensus about a good bassbar of baroque violin for a new violin? Or must I cut off some mass to my bassbar and shorten a little (how much?)? I was reading but the stuff is very different from maker to maker. Thank for any advice Regards Tango

Congratulations. I like rippling.

Hello all I tested my last violin with an expert collector and concertmaster. The test was successful so we compared with another violin, a well reputed and more experienced luthier than me. The sound of the other instrument seemed to be more powerful but really I don´t know if what I heard was some "hall sound" (resonanse?) . The sound of my violin is heard all outside the box. The other seems to be played in a subtle resonance chamber. The sound is nice in both. After thinking some, the violinist say to me: "I guess this violin would sound more (mine). May be it due to be new or it suffer exesive tension IE: a little large soundpost. The next step would be test both in a theatre but I see difficult to repeat the experience. I did nothing from that day because I went for hollydays but in few days I will be at the shop. What do you think about violins when you hear the sound all outside of the box or when you hear the box like a "little hall". I guess some hall resonance is better. Thanks for any thoughts Regards, Tango