Woltz's Violin/Fiddle Build

[FrankenWashie]

This may be a most ridiculous question but, how come the close pegs are used upside down?

I don’t believe they are McC. I think the jaws of each have been reversed in the spring to allow for what would be the flat “back” side of the standard clothes peg to become a flat clamping surface.

edit: I take that first statement back, on closer inspection of the pics, they are both upside down and inside out!

[Woltz]

One of the pegs. The theory is by switching them this way they clamp the whole lining not just the top edge.

[Woltz]

Off the form for the first time. It will go back onto the form when I glue the back on when I'm ready but it's much easier and safer to break the blocks free from the form prior to having a nicely carved back plate attached. After the pegs came off I trimmed the linings back and sanded the whole face flat.

[McCreed]

One of the pegs. The theory is by switching them this way they clamp the whole lining not just the top edge.

Ahhh, I see! I think that’s pretty clever. Thanks for the pic!

[Woltz]

Like all of my projects, time seems to disappear and I haven't done much. But I have started carving the top. I roughed out the platform around the edge where the purfling will go first and then I've started doing the rough carve. I also cut the scroll out.

[McCreed]

Regardless of the time you've spent to get to this point, I'm still in awe. To see your progression from (I think I have this right) one tele kit build, to a scratch strat build, to a freakin' scratch build VIOLIN, is nothing short of awesome in my book!

Good on ya.

[Joe Garfield]

One thing I'm really liking about the guitar building is that, no matter how long of a break I take, it's always just how I left it.

Although, wondering where you put your DIY pedal kit, then finding it assembled and wired into your pedal board leaves a peculiar feeling...

Nice work, Woltz. Thanks for the inspiration.

[Woltz]

I've cut the purfling channel and I'm working on the dry fit.

[Woltz]

I've been a bit quiet lately because my focus has been on my rocking chair project.



But I've recently been working on the violin again.

I finished the arching on the top. I'll start the carving of the inside this week.





And I've started roughing out the arching on the back.

[McCreed]

Both the chair and violin are wonderful Woltz.

Good to know you're keeping busy, and presumably doing ok with being literally surrounded by a state that's in state-wide lockdown!