For the next few months, I'll be living in London. The thing about taking long trips is that at some point you start to miss your physical instruments. In particular, I found myself missing the violin I had to leave back in Philadelphia. The solution? My solution was to build a new violin right here in my Airbnb!
PROJECT NOTES
Here are the things that went well:
- I made a playable violin
- It turns out ukulele machine heads really well with violin strings
- It turns out that a violin neck doesn't need to be rounded in order to be playable
- I'm very happy with all of the hardware I ordered, including the cheap bow which was much better than expected
Here are the things that I would do differently:
- The wood I choose is too thick (6mm). Also: even though it's hardwood, I don't know exactly what wood it is. If I had it to do over, I would make sure to get thin pieces of spruce.
- I designed the neck to be exactly parallel with the body of the instrument. I didn't expect how much the tension of the strings would change the position of the neck. I ended up making the bridge much lower than I otherwise would have to compensate
- The hole I drilled for the endpin / button at the bottom was too big and I ended up having to glue
Here's a list of all of the parts I ordered:
- Violin Fingerboard (£6.41): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
- Andoer® 4/4 Violin Accessory Kit (£8.50): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
- Adagio Pro - Violin Strings (£6.99): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
- Hidersine Teller Violin Bridge (£5.68): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
- BQLZR Machine Head Tuners For Ukulele (£5.17): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
- Rosin (£2.75): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
- Theodore 4/4 Standard Violin Bow (£9.95): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
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23 сен 2019