Collaboration completed – Welcome to Inverness

Here is the promised collaboration with Sherly Chan from Malaysia.

The tune is a Scott Skinner tune ‘Welcome to Inverness’ – and is a video response to Natalie McMaster’s rendition of the same tune.

Cheers
Jerry

 

Welcome to Inverness

I promised to present the international collaboration piece with Malaysian musician Sherly Chan (Chansherly212) playing a Scott Skinner tune called “Welcome to Inverness”

Cheers
Jerry

 

Mirecourt violin repair 5 – french polish

After touching up the repairs where the varnish had been damaged, and re-matching after  scraping back over where a previous poorly-done repair had damaged teh finish, I set about getting a good sheen on the violin top. I’m fairly happy with the result, but the colour was difficult to match evenly. Here is the result.

Violin top

 

Mirecourt violin repair 4 – More cracks

In anticipation of the full reassembly I decided to make a whole lot more spool clamps – I now have bout 30 – mostly remaking the original ones as I skimped a bit on the wood and they were prone to breaking. Method same as before – this time using 28mm dowel and making each piece about 2cm thick, before drilling the central hole and fitting with threaded rod, washers a nyloc lock nut and a wing-nut.

spool clamps

Then it was back to repairing more cracks – this time near the shoulder at the neck end. I used a double clamp which attaches to either side of teh crack, then the two edges are drawn together across the lateral axis of the clamp – it is such a useful tool for this kind of work!

double clamp

Then the whole length of the crack was clamped using the luthier body clamps. These are curved to fit over the violin body.

violin body clamps

Soon it will be time for reassembly