Best Practices
The following sections will be added as they become available:
- Glues and Gluing
- Sharpening
- Hand Plane Setup
- Molds and templates
- Rib planing
- Rib bending
- Plate Jointing and outline
- Purfling channels
- Purfling corners
- Purfling setting
- Bridge setup
- Tap Tuning (measuring modes)
- Sound post setup
These items will be populated over the next while. While you wait, check out Davide Sora’s fantastic videos, I’ve organized them here (english translation is in the description section of each video):
- How to glue top and back plate center joints
- Placement of the locating pins and drawing the outline of top plate
- Roughing of the outline and marking the edges thickness
- Closing of the sound box Part One – dry positioning of the top plate (without glue)
- Closing of the sound box Part Two – Gluing of the top plate
The following are playlists of series of videos by Davide
Top Arching
Roughing out the Top
- Roughing of the top plate – Part one
- Roughing of the top plate – Part two – Setting of the sixth (long arch)
- Roughing of the top plate – Part three – Final roughing with gouge
- Roughing of the top plate _ Part four – Final roughing with fingerplane
Top Arching Playlist:
- Gouge carving
- Fingerplane working part one
- Fingerplane working part two
- Scraper working part one
- Scraper working part two : finishing of edge fluting and purfling
- Scraper working part three : final finish of the surface
- Appendix : use of the profilometer to detect and draw the fifths and the sixth
Back Arching
Roughing out the Back
- Roughing of the back – Part one
- Roughing of the back – Part two – Setting the sixth (long arch)
- Roughing of the back – Part three – Setting of fifths and edge platform
- Roughing of the back part four – Blending of the fifths (end of gouge roughing)
- Roughing of the back part five – Final working with finger plane
Back Arching Playlist:
- Back arching – Gouge carving
- Fingerplane working
- Scraper working part one
- Scraper working part two
- Scraper working part three : finishing of edge fluting and purfling
- Scraper working part four : final finish of the surface
Purfling
- How to glue the strips to make purflings
- Cutting of the channel
- Purfling part one
- Purfling part two
- Purfling part three
- Purfling part four
- Purfling part five
- Purfling part six
- Purfling part four (addendum)
Scroll Videos
- Violin scroll part one – Preparing and squaring the block
- Violin scroll part two – Marking the outline
- Violin scroll part three – Cutting and working of the outline
- Violin scroll part four – Marking of the back of scroll and pegbox
- Violin scroll part five – Roughing with saw and hacksaw
- Violin scroll part six – Initial roughing with gouge
- Violin scroll part seven – Finishing of the lines of pegbox and volute
- Violin scroll part eight – Finishing of the first turn
- Violin scroll part nine – Roughing of the second turn with hacksaw
- Violin scroll part ten – Roughing of the second turn with gouges
- Violin scroll part eleven – Finishing of the second turn
- Violin scroll part twelve – Finishing of the eye and turn lines
- Violin scroll part thirteen – Setting the chamfer
- Violin scroll part fourteen – Finishing the chamfer
- Violin scroll part fifteen – Setting the scoop of volute and turn
- Violin scroll part sixteen – Finishing of the scoop with gouges
- Violin scroll part seventeen – Finishing of the volute with scraper
- Violin scroll part eighteen – Roughing of the inside of the peg box
- Violin scroll part nineteen – Finishing of the pegbox
- Flutings of the scroll part one
- Flutings of the scroll part two
- Flutings of the scroll part three
- Violin scroll last episode – Chamfering the pegbox and flattening the heel
Neck Fitting
- Fitting the neck into the body – Part One
- Fitting the neck into the body – Part Two
- Fitting the neck into the body – Part Three
- Fitting the neck into the body – Part Four
- Fitting the neck into the body – Part Five
Neck Shaping and Finishing
- Neck working part one
- Neck working part two
- Neck working part three
- Neck working part four
- Neck working part five
- Neck working part six
- Neck working part seven
- Neck working part eight (see above for fitting the neck into the body)
- Neck working part nine
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He’s a great craftsman – but despite exhaustive demonstrations of scraping the front and back plates, he shows nothing of his method of rounding and finishing the outer edges of the plates.
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