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The most fundamental essence of music is transferring energy by waves and vibrations form player...

Imagine you could see waves and vibrations passing through an object, the way that we...

#offbeatviolins #fiddle

Conventional cello decoration. Nothing weird about it.

The Tabolin is up and running at last! @theredfiddler came by to help discover what...

@michellelambertmusic rockin my O-Fiddle. All I can say is “O, I didn’t know it could...

The varnish is on. I’m about to start texturing and antiquing the Tabolin. #texture #offbeatfiddles...

Technical problems. The vellum is an amazing material, super strong and it self tensions as...

A look at the violin plates, before I close the box.

Decorating the Tabolin plates. Its another cell pattern, this one has a sea urchin and...

Knocking out the panels for the Tabolin. It already has a different tap tone! I...

Here’s my latest Curious Violin project: the Tabolin, a fiddle that is half violin, half...

Coming soon: A violin like nothing you’ve ever seen before.........It might even sound different too!...

Great to see Brandon Godman @thefiddlemercantile coming out of hibernation and waking up the X-fiddle...

The Redwood Violin is out and about. We met these two local fiddlers, @theredfiddler and...

Very happy to have the Redwood Violin covered by Strings. Thanks to everyone who has...

Since January 1st I’ve been building a violin from scratch, using only materials from within...

I finally got the X and O fiddles done . There’s a sound-test video which...

The woodwork is done on the X and O-fiddles. The last two pictures are of...

Done carving the outside of the X and O-Fiddles. Next comes the interesting bit: hollowing...

Getting into the carving on the X Fiddle. It´s fun making up the chip patterns...

The fun begins. A pair of violins patterned after the X and O vibrational modes....

Flown into my yard from the fires. Mostly bay laurel (or eucalyptus?), but also live...

Im starting a pair of fiddles with contrasting structures to see what the effect on...

Turtle Fiddle Arrived! Its been a slow but interesting ride. Read about the ideas behind...

A glimpse inside my dreamworld. I’m loading 75,000 pictures into a new photo-sorting app, and...

The Turtle Fiddle is coming along......slow and steady!

I’m these unusual times I’d like to suggest that we all grab a handful of...

Met Davey Jones. Or was it La Catrina?

Encountering other worlds. At point arena, California.

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Parts of the viola looked quite reptilian to me. I decided to make a fiddle...

The finished viola, with some extreme patina. #celluarfiddles

I haven’t been on Instagram for sometime. Here’s a project from a couple of months...

Ecco la tabella!

I'm making a table.

Oil, water, milk.

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Purfling again. Always fun

Rough arching - pulling the plate from the plank. My favorite stage!#cello #woodcarving

Mendoceno's other green gold: Really nice Equisetum from the California coast.