Evan Smith Report post Posted December 18, 2018 Thanks for that! Excellent music! Very enjoyable! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Bress Report post Posted December 18, 2018 Cool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evan Smith Report post Posted December 18, 2018 7 minutes ago, Jim Bress said: Cool! Ah! MY Generation,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Bress Report post Posted December 18, 2018 12 minutes ago, Evan Smith said: Ah! MY Generation,, Did I date myself? Do people not say cool anymore? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evan Smith Report post Posted December 18, 2018 I've taught it to my kids,,,,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michael_Molnar Report post Posted December 18, 2018 Way cool. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ron MacDonald Report post Posted December 18, 2018 Brilliant!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted December 18, 2018 Thanks! 5 hours ago, Evan Smith said: Ah! MY Generation,, 5 hours ago, Jim Bress said: Did I date myself? Do people not say cool anymore? I say 'cool'. Which generation is supposed to say 'cool'? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Bress Report post Posted December 18, 2018 You might be a Gen-Xer. From this article, 6 out of 8 of these words are part of my vocabulary, so they've got me nailed. I just missed being a baby boomer. I'll have to remember not to use these words in an upcoming interview. Although my mug will probably give me away. https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/8-words-that-totally-reveal-you-are-not-a-millennial.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted December 18, 2018 2 hours ago, Jim Bress said: You might be a Gen-Xer. From this article, 6 out of 8 of these words are part of my vocabulary, so they've got me nailed. I just missed being a baby boomer. I'll have to remember not to use these words in an upcoming interview. Although my mug will probably give me away. https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/8-words-that-totally-reveal-you-are-not-a-millennial.html Sweet! ...I mean, awesome! I mean... cool! ...or... yeah, right, that. You get it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carl1961 Report post Posted December 18, 2018 Fox, Nice, cool awesome video, professional looking too. Ok, you got the bridge and now the sound post, now the rest of the fiddle! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted December 19, 2018 59 minutes ago, carl1961 said: Fox, Nice, cool awesome video, professional looking too. Ok, you got the bridge and now the sound post, now the rest of the fiddle! Thanks! I've been tweaking my first full build fiddle for about 2 months. I'm finally happy with it, though! I'll be posting about it sooner or later, I'm waiting to see if I get a good recording device for Christmas so I can post it with the usual audio clip. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carl1961 Report post Posted December 19, 2018 7 hours ago, FoxMitchell said: Thanks! I've been tweaking my first full build fiddle for about 2 months. I'm finally happy with it, though! I'll be posting about it sooner or later, I'm waiting to see if I get a good recording device for Christmas so I can post it with the usual audio clip. All right can't weight! wait LOL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted January 10 Holy cello, Batman! I got to repair a hole on some cello's ribs! I wasn't able to make the repair completely disappear (like on that Triangle Strings article). The broken pieces and all fit well and the repair is structurally sound, I just need to learn to make it blend in better on a new instrument; I bet if this were an old cello already full of scuffs and dings and scratches I could have made it more discrete. Anyone got any tips? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas Coleman Report post Posted January 10 I can't imagine what a p.i.t.a. that repair would be. Your job looks admirable and already starts the story of the instrument. Ryan's Triangle repair is pure wizardry. Can you make it full of scuffs and dings and scratches? At any rate, it looks like you did a fine job considering Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Don Noon Report post Posted January 10 58 minutes ago, FoxMitchell said: Anyone got any tips? That last sentence in the linked article I think is key: Fill and retouch is also another article all in itself. I will say however that with out a clean and leveled crack surface good retouch cannot happen. Good fit of the pieces, accurate counterforms, and plenty of clamping pressure to get it level and smooth. Then the real magic is in the retouch. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ctanzio Report post Posted January 10 The last step in wood repair is definitely retouch. This is something I still struggle with. I've seen masters make severe cracks vanish with subtle dabs of a fine brush and an array of coloring mediums. The blending of the overall varnish looks great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted January 11 17 hours ago, Thomas Coleman said: I can't imagine what a p.i.t.a. that repair would be. Your job looks admirable and already starts the story of the instrument. Ryan's Triangle repair is pure wizardry. Can you make it full of scuffs and dings and scratches? At any rate, it looks like you did a fine job considering Thanks! And hehe, no, I would rather not try to antique the entire cello just so that one repair will blend in better. It's a student cello, there's only so much time/effort one can dedicate to it. 16 hours ago, Don Noon said: That last sentence in the linked article I think is key: Fill and retouch is also another article all in itself. I will say however that with out a clean and leveled crack surface good retouch cannot happen. Good fit of the pieces, accurate counterforms, and plenty of clamping pressure to get it level and smooth. Then the real magic is in the retouch. 15 hours ago, ctanzio said: The last step in wood repair is definitely retouch. This is something I still struggle with. I've seen masters make severe cracks vanish with subtle dabs of a fine brush and an array of coloring mediums. The blending of the overall varnish looks great. Thanks! I got reasonably good fit and smoothness. It's the retouching magic that I'm low on. The angle and lightning also make it more, or less noticeable. I didn't feel comfortable doing too strong of a retouch because the chatoyancy of the wood on that spot is really intense and the varnish so transparent, I lack the knowledge on how to make that kind of effect blend, but hopefully in time I will learn the secrets! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted February 7 On this episode of What Found Its Way Onto Fox's Bench, this rather quaint amateur-made fiddle! According to the owner, it was made by her great-grandfather some 90 years ago here in the U.S., but I don't have a maker's name to share. Has the typical idiosyncrasies one might come to expect from such instruments. After I was done with it, for what it is, sounded rather nice, surprisingly loud, but playing it was painful; the neck has angle problems that are beyond what they're willing to have fixed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted March 23 I brought the 'Anton Schroetter' cello back to life! Most of it was already posted on its own topic... ...but I'm posting it here too to keep a copy on my 'bench' thread too. Now for some photos... Turned out to be quite a nice cello! And I made a tiny little video with the sound sample this time. Thanks everybody for their help as always! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Bress Report post Posted March 23 Well done Doctor Fox. Your patient is looking much better and is ready to return to work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted March 24 3 hours ago, Jim Bress said: Well done Doctor Fox. Your patient is looking much better and is ready to return to work. Thank you! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted April 6 I wanted to do a shout-out to Thomastik because they really impressed me! (even though I'm a loyal Warchal user) I put some Vision Titanium Solo strings on a violin, and overnight the D string started to unravel! So I wrote to Thomastik, and they sent me a replacement string (free of charge)! I think it's awesome that a big company like Thomastik-Infeld actually cares about their customers like that! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted May 16 Just a little something to show I'm still alive, and carving! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoxMitchell Report post Posted July 4 This has been a long time in the making, but here's at last a little sample of violin #1! Here's a little video of a friend playing it... Overall I'm satisfied, specially since apparently most people tend not to be too happy with their first violin. But it took a lot of fine-tuning! However, it was a nice learning experience. I learned, for example, that making your own varnish is not something I would recommend for someone making their first violin. Buy some already-made varnish!! Also attempting to antique a violin without knowing what you're doing will make it look Chinese-y. And I can carve a top in a few days, but takes me weeks to do a neck and scroll... when the top of the scroll doesn't just break-off from a slight bump (that there is neck attempt #3; the first one was ugly, the second one broke, but the 3rd worked)! Davide Sora's videos helped a lot! Check out his channel sometime! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggqGrdYUEovaC9UKnSMD3g/ Thanks everybody here for their insight and all the information/knowledge you folks share! I'll post some nice pictures once I get them done. I have a bunch of cellos and violins that need attention first! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
