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I think the violin look Awesome, nice work, looks like paper inside, nice idea to keep the varnish and what ever from dropping inside on the back

Great topic and posts! I am willing to think that all hand made instruments or asymmetrical for example the Stradivari Antonio Betts (chosen because we have a good bit of articals to see). another thought too is these old violins most likely have shrunken and deformed a tad, over these 300 years than when originally made.

Found this: "Bte S.G.D.G." is an abbreviation for a typical phrase concerning products from France. "Bte" is short for "breveté" (="patented") and " S.G.D.G." stands for "Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement" (="without government guarantee") http://www.answers.com/Q/What_the_meaning_of_bte-sgdg but nothing came up on V. d. C-M

yes almost endless, I think everyone should have a 3d printer LOL, there cheaper and even better made than when I started 3 years ago.

The support stuff is barely touching the parts so they break off easy . The slicer program adds the support automatically, some slicer programs do have the options for letting you manually apply support in areas you might think needs it.

I think I recall seeing Davide using curved knives in his videos, and there crisp clear and excellent to see.

I can print something 16" x 16"x 12" high 410mm x 410mm x 300mm

Betts Dicom stl neck 3d printed, I was surprised at how close the dimensions where to the Library of Congress pictured setting, they where just a few 10th's off. about as close as I will ever get at seeing a Stradivarius neck. it's good enough to use to eye with when carving the neck out.

Thanks David, I see noting wrong with that. You just prove that you don't need 200.00 wet wheels and a 30 - 100 dollar gouge jig to get the job done. Plus you got a fan too!

Excellent post! what I like reading, I agree Michael Szyper, about David's method, simple and it been working for him for many years! David is it possible to post pictures of your 80 rpm grinder is it under this mess!

I agree, often wondered that too.

Not to take from this thread , but shed more light on the topic here is a February 20, 2011 archive from violinist.com Why is hand-made > machine-made? Also You get to read David Burgess discussion and see him win against machine carving! https://www.violinist.com/discussion/archive/19530/

this is the one I bought over a year ago and use the most of many I bought, it had good reveiws so i took the chance and I am well pleased. it's weight is 60 gram and balances at 10 1/2" (266mm) has not lost any hair and stick is still straight, cost was about 32.00 a year ago NEW 4/4 Advanced Elegant Pernambuco performance Violin Bow Natural Horsehair I just ordered this one so I have yet to see is it's worth as a bow to give away. Pernambuco Violin Bow-Full Size 4/4 Octagonal Stick, Real Horse Hair Ebony

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I'm sorry If I offended you, it sure was not my intention and I meant nothing negative by female, many female can out perform me for sure. and I do value your many post. lesson learned.