Makeshift setup

[Anthony Panke]

I still don’t have the fittings I ordered, but was too impatient to fit the bridge string heights. 

Here’s what I came up with in 5 minutes- it even works alright! 

An old tailpiece with makeshift leather cord,

wrapped two old strings through a peghole and around an old brush handle. 

You can even tune it (at low tension)

(I’m 1mm off string heights)

 

Regards to all

[Brad Dorsey]

It's supposed to have four strings.

[Three13]

What's that they say about the mother of invention?

[Anthony Panke]

7 hours ago, Brad Dorsey said:

It's supposed to have four strings.

For string height measuring, only two are necessary. To play on, I agree 4 is a good number.

 

5 hours ago, Three13 said:

What's that they say about the mother of invention?

Necessity?, more impatience in this case...

[Anthony Panke]

To clarify, this is not an attempt at final setup, just enough to check the string height. 

[J.DiLisio]

Nice, I use the old paintbrush in the keyster trick when I'm varnishing.

[Craig Cowing]

Is this a vertical viola?

 

[Anthony Panke]

No, just a violin. What even is a vertical viola?

[luthier]

On a side note, there are many cheap Chinese paint brushes and expensive varnish brushes with a 1:30 taper. I use them to work in spiral bushings (candle wax applied to the handle).  Looks like you are using one in the endpin hole.