For the graduation ceremony potluck today, I fed everyone hide glue:

My aunt would make this for us when we were kids.

Here is Tschu Ho Lee, our Director Emeritus, enjoying a cube of hide glue delight.

So that marks the end of my second full year at the Chicago School of Violin Making (I’ve got one more year to go).

Here’s the state of the cello:

And viola is almost done getting varnished:

I’ll be posting from Austin for the next couple weeks. See ya!