Ongoing
Varnish cooking time
Still no time for making new violins, but varnish cooking every summer is a must! Same recipe as last year Cooking colophony, as the colophony is reduced it gets more viscous and the temperature has to gradually be raised:    |
Ribs with a Japanese saw
After a long break it's time to continue The Soil project, working on the fifth   |
Varnish cooking time
Warming up, quite pale in the beginning, planning to cook the rosin for 10+ hours => 9,5 hours total cooking time. The weather was windy and reduction of colophony was faster than last year. Need to do some test later, I wonder if it can be too dark        |
Panic before Christmas
Can't believe that it's ~7 months since I have done something to finish this! And now it's soon Christmas and this violin need to play some Christmas carols. Nut & sadle glued in a hurry  |
Varnish cooking 15.07.2017
Making some darker varnish this time, 1 hour and 5 hours into cooking colophony. (15%/20% weight loss, starting from 100 g colophony) Colophony cooked for 10 hours and reduced to 70 g (30%) -> Link to album: Varnish cooking 15.07.2017 This is the day when I stop using added colors and pigments in my varnish!    |
Wood baking & measuring
Wood baking at 160 C, ~5,5 % loss which is normal this time of the year A,B spruce C,D maple. Data before baking, high dens spruce and lower/average dens maple    |
Next project
One would think that you need a band saw, but what you really need is a Japanese saw and 20 min of work.    |
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