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Gregory Singer Playing George.
Gregory Singer Playing George. This morning I met with Gregory Singer of Gregory Singer Fine Violins, http://www.singerviolins.com/. I had made an appointment through his shop #violinGeorge #violin #violinist #violinmaker #luthier #varnish #howeryviolins #northFlorida #florida #ameliaisland #fernandinabeach #newsbrunswick #savannah #jacksonville #saintAugustine …
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Polishing Edward
Polishing violin Edward. This is the second in a series of videos that illustrate the polishing process used between coats of violin oil varnish. The oil varnish comes from from violinvarnish.com. The first in the series is at: http://instagram.com/p/760_FXI2TD/ You …
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Graduating Juliet
Juliet graduating on top spruce just about done… A little more on the back plate and I start cutting the F-Holes #violinJuliet #violin #violinist #violinmaker #luthier #varnish #howeryviolins #northFlorida #florida #ameliaisland #fernandinabeach #florida #newsbrunswick #savannah #jacksonville #saintAugustine #stmarys #southerngeorgia #NYC …
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Harvesting Tone Wood
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Violin Maker Visit: William Mason Violins Fredricksburg, VA
July 11, 2014: Visiting William Mason Violins, Fredricksburg, VA Today I visited Bill Mason of William Mason Vi). I had met Bill at the Southern Violin Association’s (SVA) annual meeting on May 25th in Atlanta (http://southernviolinassociation.com or on FaceBoohttps://www.facebook.com/SouthernViolinAssociation). The …
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Violin Making: Setting the Bass Bar in Fiona
One of the mysterious steps in violin making is setting the bass bar. There is much discussion about the bar tension, placement, and thickness; all factors that affect the tone of the final instrument. Also all factors that can not …
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Violin making: Rib Assembly on Fiona
The first steps in making Violin #6, Fiona is building the violin rib assembly. To get started we set the corner gluing blocks to the form and then gluing the ribs. It all sounds pretty simple until, like most things, …
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The Making Violin #6, Fiona Started today
Sound Testing #5 Edward With #5, Edward, playable in the white, I did a set of recordings for comparison to when Edward will have his varnish on. The recordings consist of a set of open string bowings; G, D, A, …
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Edward #5 Setup to Play his first tunes
Today Edward, Violiln #5, was setup and played in the white. Edward was started in February of 2014. When I went to the Tuscon violin making workshop, Edward’s ribs were done and the plate edges were trimmed. Today setup was …
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Varnishing Beatrice
Finally at the stage of varnishing my early violins. The following photos show the varnishing stages of Beatrice my second violin. This photo shows Beatrice with two coats of cold rolled linseed oil. I actually use the food grade fax …