A violin project begins #4

[Kevin in California]

I have the linings in on the top side of the garland.
I also profiled the top and back plates on the small bandsaw close to the finished outline. The shape will be finalized later using Sanding sticks after the edge on the plates has been reduced to about 5mm.

I then started carving the outside arching of the top. Took off about half the material but still a long way to go to get the arching correct.

[Herman]

Jee Kevin, it looks harder than building a guitar. Not starting to play violin?
Herman

[John Parchem]

looks like you are nailing the violin build process.

[Kevin in California]

Herman
In many ways its easier I think. I wish I could learn to play it but I'm still trying to learn to play guitar!!!!

John it gets easier with each one.
You made one once right? Was it a fiddle kit?

[Kevin in California]

So I've been working getting the top and back arching close to the final shape. Pretty much have the top there.
I hand cut the groove and glued in the top purfling. Carved it down flush then carved in a scallop around the edge about 1 mm deep and the shaped that I to the arching.

Today I cut in the purfling grooves on the back. This is done with a marking device that has two blades and scores the surface leaving enough of a score that can then be traced with an exacto knife cutting in about .060" deep. Then a special chisel is used to vacate the groove.
It's pretty Groovy!!!

I'll bend, cut and mitre the purfling tomorrow and glue it in

[Kevin in California]

With the top and back outside arching basiclly done and the purfling leveled and the recurve carved in its time to flip them over and begin the hollowing out carving.

First i set up a jig on the drill press whi h alowws me to drill a series of holes from the i side to a depth leaving 4mm between the bottom of the holes and the outside top surface. The goal is to carve, plane and scrape until the top thickness is 3mm at the center and graduating down to 2.5mm arou d the perimeter. The ledge which will be glued to the rim of the corpus is 3mm.

I got to a place today where I'm close to thickness but fairly uneven thicknesses that need to be evened out.

About a .5mm amount left to go. Ive taken readings and writtem them on the inside so i know where i need to remove more material. Next ill do that and scrape and sand it smooth!

[Kevin in California]

Im getting errors trying to load the pics
I'll try it again later