carl1961

Very Nice work and playing!

I think it would work better for the cello, I find the round part little big for violins on the C bouts tight slow moving and easy to get bumps and waves.

made from whatever I had laying around basically.

I don't really remember.

Hardest step for me to at amateur violin making (I never did the Scroll!), good eyes or a must too and LOTS of patients, I never was gifted with. I hold my breath even with this thing, and if you do not stay perfect 90 degree's you get dips and waves in your groove. well the tool was not a complete loss as I have used it for other things, mainly a table LOL. the cable on the peddle was from a old lawn mower. and discarded wood from violin molds My Purflin Router Table2.mp4 My Purflin Groove2.mp4

My wife, she does not play the violin, had something similar, (rotor cup damage),she could not raise her arm past her shoulder . Your friend need a rope hung on a hook -or pulley, like over a door area, or from the ceiling where your friend can stand up. and use that rope with good arm to exercise her bad arm. My wife has completely recovered, she had to retrain her muscles. something like this. https://www.amazon.com/Vive-Shoulder-Pulley-Rehabilitation-Strengthener/dp/B071149H43/ref=asc_df_B071149H43?

Here is a good ( I think so) information on amber varnish, i used his Venetian Amber Varnish, even though I don't know what the hell I am doing! http://www.jamescgroves.com/germanambervarnish.htm I used Vernici Liuteria varnish too again I don't know what I am doing!

After installing another sound post, and moving it to normal location , about 4mm behind bridge foot and new strings (Addario Zyex Medium Tension) and letting sound post settle a week, Violin is much better on the G. recorded with cell phone test.mp3

download 7zip and use it to unzip. https://7-zip.org/

that sound file was two years ago at first putting that violin back together. G string was defiantly worse last weak. today I removed the strings looked in the tail pin hole , sound post was straight but it was not correctly behind the bridge foot. moving it more towards the middle direction, the post was to short. I am currently fitting a longer post.

Sorry I meant Knilling Perfection Pegs, the slightly thread in.

I will do that , After I replace the strings and before I install a longer sound post. here is the original first done 2 years ago, if you can bare the playing! last test.mp3

Thanks @Michael Darnton , very interesting, I will try this, I hate the thought of having to open up this old violin. First I going to replace the strings with new ones these or 2 years old, and Note were the sound post is currently. when I removed the strings the sound post did not fall (been 2 years since installed).

your right I just turned it around , actually there just chopped, and posted fast so they or not in the top , bottom middle locations , I can do a better job tomorrow and make the templates too.

there may be a rule, those or viewed from inside as you scrap and thumb plane. I used hide glue and glued the cracks and then put a patch inside peg box. didn't do to good hiding it. I used Wittner Finetune Geared Violin Pegs so there is no pressure on the peg box like traditional pegs