I’m in the middle of arching my second violin. I laid out my scrapers and they arranged themselves like this:
My bench neighbor looked over at me playing tangrams with my scrapers and all he had to say was: “You’re retarded.”
fetal violin
Plate Gouging Timelapse
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I’ll talk a little to keep you awake in the meantime. Joint Pain isn’t over – I just had to interrupt it to show everyone where I am on violin #2. Rib assembly is all done, plates have been cut out, cleaned up, and edge thicknessed. Now I am gouging to make that poofy roundy violin belly shape. I took several photos along the way and packaged them up into little timelapse animations:
A roughed out maple butt cheek lower bout.
Roughing out an upper and C bout. Tommy makes a cameo! haha. That’s what happens when you sneak a selfie into my timelapse!!!!
I like to use my ruler this way to judge what I have done. It’s a good way to read the arch.
Joint Pain #3: the shakes
“… I don’t think I’ll be able to hold this for 30 seconds.”
Note: the theory of why we prep our plates this way is my interpretation. I don’t know how badly I’ve already distorted what my teacher said.
Joint Pain #2: Try Again
Stupid wavy wood, mocking me like that.
Joint Pain #1: tender loving care
Joining violin plates with the jointer plane is so tricky and so important that it’s the ONLY step that we don’t get to do on our first violin. But remember, I’m on my SECOND VIOLIN! which means plenty of fodder for my new violin making mini-series: JOINT PAIN!
…. Thank goodness the last panel is a hyperbole. I did bump the vise. But it didn’t fall. And she wasn’t horrified. In fact, I think she was not surprised at all. And it has a safety net under it (aka a big trash can).
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