Off Beat
Turtle Fiddle
This is a follow up to the Dimpled Viola project and develops some of the ideas sparked by that project. With the viola I made...
Dimpled Viola, an Etude. Part 2, Finishing
In the first part of this study I constructed a viola emphasizing a part of the construction process, the carving, which is visually very interesting...
My father’s wood carving
My father was a sculptor who worked in everything from marble and bronze to sintered sand and telegraph poles. in some of his wood carving...
Shōki’s Scroll – Finding other sources of inspiration for violinmaking
I was at the Oberlin violinmakers workshop again this summer, sharing workbenches and ideas with sixty five talanted makers from around the world. With advances...