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← back Results for "" The humble button, if well preserved, can be a signature of the maker's hand. Compare the button by Romero Antoniazzi (1862 - 1925 Milan )with that by his student Alfred Lanini (1891-1956 San Jose, California). Lanini adopted many Antoniazzi...
← back Results for "" Planing deeply figured maple ribs can be tricky; half of each stroke is cutting up into end grain and the wood tends to tear out. To get around this problem an early genius invented the toothed plane blade. The back edge of the blade has a series...
← back Results for "" While hollowing plates with this scrub plane many of the shavings would wrap themselves around my wrist.
← back Results for "" Sometimes shavings are not a waste product, these pear wood shavings will be used to make purfling, similar shavings are used to make "spiral bushings" for use in peg box repairs. To make a thick and uniform shaving can require considerable force...
← back Results for "" Beautiful bicolored shavings by violin maker Andrea Castañeda Flores, Mexico. What an artist! This is from planing the underside of a baroque fingerboard.
← back Results for "" Trimming the margins of a violin, Cuts with the knife square to the work rolls off tight scrolls.
← back Results for "" from blogpost: Beauty in violin repairs
← back Results for "" Repeated knife cuts add further flourishes to this arabesque.
← back Results for "" Buttons tend to shrink over their careers, sometimes just due to wear but more often as a result of resetting the neck. If a neck is removed and replaced, to change its position or alignment on the violin, often it will be found that the button...
← back Results for "" There is a lot of chamfering involved in finishing the edges of a violin, Cutting small face with a consist width and at a consistent angle demands considerable skill Holding the knife at an angle to the work makes open spring type spirals. Here...