Urban Luthier

and (I think) dendro research can back this up. I spoke a maker recently who suggested that there may have been a choice to use greener wood as it was easier to work, and that the nice textured ripples we see and touch on the backs of some instruments from the classical cremonses making, may have been a result of the changes to the green wood over time

Indeed, no conspiracy theory - data centres require a considerable natural resources to cool, and electricity to run. This has been well documented; as is the amount of compute to create the Gen AI animations (like the Battlestar Galactica video referenced above (very nice, but VERY wasteful IMHO). Nor is it a conspiracy theory that the demand for data centre builds is putting an extraordinary strain on memory and storage supply and, as a result, driving costs up for other things. All well documented by the people designing, supplying hardware for, and building these data centres. Ethics? I can only speak for myself but the creation of these types of mindless Gen AI animations is a horrible wast of compute. Social media is full of stuff like this packed into feeds with ever increasing demand. Not a good thing IMHO.

Love your workflow for gluing the purfling @Davide Sora it takes so much stress out of getting the mitres aligned!

Oh geez - deleting my post. I haven't been here for a while. It seems a bit has changed. I can only speak for myself but data centre resources can be put to much better use than Gen AI-ing mindless videos that masquerade as entertainment (like the one in post #1). There is a real cost to generating this stuff and it hogs cycles that could be used for higher value compute tasks

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Thanks so much for sharing Davide! I find your videos very educational and very therapeutic to watch!

Just seeing this now. I agree with Tets, Wishing you and your wife strength and looking forward looking forward to seeing and hearing your violin when you finish it!

Looking fine!

Nice work Dave. I love the hazel figure as well. What pattern do you plan to use for the viola?

I received mine as well and echo Mike's comments. It is a fine publication and a joy to read. A nice companion to the C+J book

I ordered as well. It looks like a fine publication and the drawings are fantastic! Thanks you for sharing!

Nice work Keiran!

I work on the Hardware side of AI IMHO with the right data and training, a LLM model could do a good job with dendro ID Instrument ID a different beast - even if a model was built from the entire Tarisio photo database, the results would be mixed - for the simple reason that most of the source material is 2D flat images with inconsistent measurement techniques.

I hollow grind my gouges on a Tormek and hone freehand on stone grits you mention above. The Tormek works well for restoring and chisels small plane irons and gouges, but is simply too slow at removing large amount of metal on larger plane irons. If I had to do it all over I'd follow the advice given earlier in the thread

Love the colour!