I'm a hand tool woodworker interested in building violins. Someone posted a video from Vimeo on the Unplugged Woodworkers group on Facebook that has hooked me completely. In a half-hour, it shows French luthier Dominique Nicosia building a violin with hand tools, covering the entire process start to finish.
I recently created an online video course for Popular Woodworking Magazine called "Intro To Hand Tools", and as I watched this video, I realized I knew how to do almost every skill he used! Now I need to learn to apply them to the construction of an instrument.
I'm a big proponent of practice to develop hand tool skills, so I expect my first several (or 10) to be suitable for nothing but wall decoration.
Hello from Massachusetts
- Steve Branam
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- Barry Daniels
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Re: Hello from Massachusetts
Welcome aboard Steve. Good to have you here. Don't be surprised if #2 turns out to be a pretty good instrument.
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Re: Hello from Massachusetts
Welcome! I can't really offer any help because I know nothing about violin making. Hopefully you'll get some good advice from the folks in the bowed instrument section. I keep hoping one of my daughters will take up the violin in school; making one (or as many as it takes to get a usable one) is on my bucket list.
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