Archives for February 2021

I've had a long period of catching up with odd jobs, varnishing and finishing instruments, also preparing and cooking resins for varnish, and some work for the charity I chair which supports student violin makers, www.rabtrust.org. Now at last I'm properly back at the workbench, with an exciting new project. I've had this cello model in my sight for ages, and in fact bought the wood for the mould in the spring, but other work intervened. It's a very late Stradivari cello, to a pattern … [Read more...]