Useful Internet Articles

[Jeffrey Holmes]

Please feel free to post links to articles available on the internet pertaining to making, repair & restoration on this thread.  Periodically, I'll move the links into categories if the number of entries gets to be a bit much to sort through.

 

Please do not post attachments, only links available publicly... We want to make an effort to respect author's copyrights.

[Joel Pautz]

“Hold on tight” The Strad Nov 2001 article

By Andreas Hudelmayer

Repair & Restoration -> Table and Back Repairs -> Crack Repair -> Studs, Small Clamps, Interior Crack Closing

http://hudelmayer.co...n-crack-repair/

[Jeffrey Forbes]

Fingerboard Acoustics

by Martin Schleske:

http://www.schleske.de/en/our-research/handbook-violinacoustics/fingerboard-acoustics.html

[Jeffrey Forbes]

Reinforcing a Cracked Pegbox Wall with a Carbon-fibre Bushing

by Jerry Pasewicz

 

Online article:

http://psi.samedisclients.com/reinforcing-a-cracked-pegbox-wall-with-a-carbon-fibre-bushing/

 

Print reference:

Pasewicz, Jerry. “Reinforcing a Cracked Pegbox Wall with a Carbon-fibre Bushing.” The Conservation, Restoration, and Repair of Stringed Instruments and Their Bows. Vol. 2. Montreal, London: IPCI-Canada, Archetype Publications, 2010.

 

Repair & Restoration -> Neck and Scroll Repairs -> Bushing Pegholes

Keywords: peghole, bushing, carbon-fibre, cracked pegbox

[West Country Violins]

This is quite a useful article just on basic setup of pegs, bridge and soundpost, it might be of interest to new players and enthusiasts.

 

http://www.westcountryviolins.com/web_pages/violin.htm

 

 

Brian

[Kari Azure]

Reinforcing a Cracked Pegbox Wall with a Carbon-fibre Bushing

by Jerry Pasewicz

Online article:

http://psi.samedisclients.com/reinforcing-a-cracked-pegbox-wall-with-a-carbon-fibre-bushing/

Print reference:

Pasewicz, Jerry. “Reinforcing a Cracked Pegbox Wall with a Carbon-fibre Bushing.” The Conservation, Restoration, and Repair of Stringed Instruments and Their Bows. Vol. 2. Montreal, London: IPCI-Canada, Archetype Publications, 2010.

Repair & Restoration -> Neck and Scroll Repairs -> Bushing Pegholes

Keywords: peghole, bushing, carbon-fibre, cracked pegbox

The updated link for this article is: https://trianglestrings.com/reinforcing-cracked-pegbox-wall/

[Michael_Molnar]

Roger Hargrave's Library is loaded with goodies.

[PASEWICZ]

Kari Azure wrote a nice article.

http://Pasewicz.com/conicalthroughpatch/

[Uncle Bob]

Tools For Working Wood is a rather nice and trusty source for Woodworking Tools and materials.  On one of their blogs, they have been putting out PDFs of a wonderful old magazine full of ways that things have been made.  Issue 110 of Work Magazine has an article with a listing and illustrations of tools the author, J.W. Briggs, considered appropriate for making violins. The instructions are perhaps a touch sparse but all in all it is a delightful article.  Issue 114 of Work Magazine continues the article as does Issue 118.   Issue 118 details his varnish recipe so it is of special interest.

[PASEWICZ]

Matt opines about the little ebony piece that the strings run over going into the pegbox..with video!

http://Pasewicz.com/violinnut/

[EricSwanson]

I love this blog from French bow maker Sandrine Raffin:  http://atelier-raffin.blogspot.com/

 

It is all in French though.

 

Best,

 

Eric

[PASEWICZ]

Jenelle Steele: Making a beautiful thumb leather.

http://Pasewicz.com/thumbleather/

[Michael Darnton]

My yet-unfinished violin making book, posted as it becomes available is here:

http://violinmag.com

[MikeC]

My yet-unfinished violin making book, posted as it becomes available is here:

http://violinmag.com

Looking forward to more of that.  I've read all of it that you have available so far including the varnish chapter which isn't there now.   The rewrite of that will be interesting to see.  

[violinfan66]

My yet-unfinished violin making book, posted as it becomes available is here:

http://violinmag.com

 

I also am looking forward to reading this especially the final version with pictures.  I find them as useful as the text.  Until then I'll study the text version.

Bill W.

[D. Piolle]

About dendrochronology , the very educationnal great site of Dr Henri Grissino-Mayer :

 

http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/ltrs/publications.htm

 

Regards, Dave.

[Peter Lynch]

 A link to few chapters from David Pye's book : "The Nature and Art of Workmanship"...... 

 

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/davidpye019.pdf

 

 

 

-Peter

[uncle duke]

Please feel free to post links to articles available on the internet pertaining to making, repair & restoration on this thread.  Periodically, I'll move the links into categories if the number of entries gets to be a bit much to sort through.

 

Please do not post attachments, only links available publicly... We want to make an effort to respect author's copyrights.

I can't believe this wasn't posted yet.  Here it is-   VSA Graduating the thickness of violin plates pdf.   Oberlin

[uncle duke]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwk.mdw.ac.at%2Flit_db_iwk%2Fdownload.php%3Fid%3D18077&ei=phSfVYKGKcq4ggT51YH4CQ&usg=AFQjCNGgB8Ecx5sjXm3D2iGOb37PYKsKOw&bvm=bv.96952980,d.eXY&cad=rja

[uncle duke]

http://www.google

[tidewaterred]

This is a long shot, but on this forum, someone once posted a link to a luthier who I believe also had a violin making school. He has some really nice videos, he was very talented and worked fast and precise which was very impressive.  Also his video showed him making excellent us of light or a light source to show the violin contours as he worked.  Unfortunately, I can't find this link again.  I want to say he is Spanish or Italian, but I may be getting this mixed up with another video. 

 

I also remember him discussing the differences in students that came to his school, and he said that they encourage everyone who wants to learn, but in the days when you learned as an apprentice, many who are students now, would have been turned away, as they wouldn't have had some basic skills, I think he used curiosity, or persistence to work through the challenges of violin making.

 

It was very interesting and I'd like to see it again.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[uncle duke]

Davide Sora - Italy

 

Jorge Bertholdo- Portugal or Spain- has the school setting you may be looking for.

[tidewaterred]

Thanks Uncle Duke,

 

It was Davide Sora!  Those were the videos that I was looking for, although the one about the school must have been something or someone else!  I've got them bookmarked now,

 

Much appreciated.

[Daniel P.N]

http://www.makingtheviolin.com/

Covers the entire building process, including templates for the messiah.

[Landolfi]

Perhaps this is not the right feed, but i also wonder if someone can post photos of different varnish among violins, and how you can tell the age and origin of the violin based on the varnish.