Removal of the form and finishing the inside of the ribs 

Thanks!🙏

Jou werke is pragtig en ek volg altyd en esi en ek kyk en leer by jou.

Thanks so much for your kind words, really appreciated!! I wish you a lot of fun with the making of your cello.😊

🙂

Salam ostad babat tamam amushhayi k midin moteshakerm.

Being a good violinist requires dedication, as well as being a good violin maker. You can't be extremely good at both, you have to make choices and focus on that. You will never be good enough at playing to be able to try your violins to understand if they work well at a high level, for this there is a need for expert violinists, and not just one but as many as possible because everyone will have different expectations and style of playing. The most important skill of the high-level violin maker lies in knowing how to listen and know in depth all the aspects of the sound and setting that the high-level violin technique requires. Then, the luthier does not only make violins, so how would it be possible to have high playing skills in violin, viola, cello and even doublebass? Stradivari also made lutes, gambas, guitars, viola d'amore, and even harps. How could he be good at all of them?😊

@@DavideSora Thanks for the well thought out response. About what I expected, getting the basics well enough to do the setting up of the instrument seems like something that takes practice but achievable.

@@alexhamon9261 Yes, you don't need to play music for that, just notes with correct bowing all the way up the fingerboard, especially in higher position on G string. For fast passages to evaluate articulation and many other technical things you need a good player anyway. Then, a setup is good if it fits well the player taste and bowing tecnique. I mean the owner of the violin, you will have to work with him for the final definitive setting up.

Yes, it's Willow. If the fiber Is oriented correctly (split) it's a charm to cut

@@DavideSora Thank you!

It is used to avoid surprises with the splitting of the blocks, which could sometimes follow unexpected directions. In this way you reduce the length of the parts to be split, identifying any eventual problems and increasing control of the splitting operations. Of course, you can unglue the blocks and remove the form without cutting them first, doing all the work at the end with the free ribs. But doing this increases the risks and moreover, the ribs must be forced more to free them from the form, with possible problems of ungluing of the linings. Just try to do it and see what happens and what the problems are, and draw your own conclusions. As a side note, traces of cuts at the level of the form have sometimes remained on the corner blocks of the ancient Cremonese instruments, which can be interpreted as the consequence of a preventive cut as I do and that you see in my videos

No, I don't think it can have an effect on tone, but willow is more homogeneous than spruce and is easier to work with and performs better as strength of bonding surfaces and crack resistance for upper and lower blocks. But even spruce can be fine if carefully selected with narrow grain, I use it for Del Gesù models (he used spruce for blocks and linings).

@@DavideSora thanks for the answer maestro, definitely worth understanding woodworking principles at its best in the violin making process.

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@Charlie Krew I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and im trying it out now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

Hi Jeff, you're probably doing something wrong, because I've never had cracking or ungluing problems when I remove the form. Is your form the same thickness as mine? The Cremonese form must have a maximum thickness of 14 mm (13.5 mm is better), if it were thicker it could be more difficult to remove it. Do you protect the surfaces of the form in contact with the ribs with paraffin or dry soap so that the ribs do not stick to the form? This is very important. Do you follow every step of the process I show in the video exactly? One of the fundamental tricks is to free the corner blocks from the edges of the form, in order to allow the free movement of the garland, which would otherwise remain blocked. This is particularly important to detach the upper and lower blocks without stressing the gluings (or cracking the wood in the worst case...), and to guarantee the necessary elasticity to allow the garland to stretch and make the linings go over the edges of the form. I'm talking about this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-12jxxrw8pXE.htmlsi=NQY7bDc63qBIeQdK&t=240

It's a n°5, width 22mm

@@DavideSora Thanks very much Davide, best from Newark : )

In the finished violin, no trace of the glue used to glue the blocks to the form will remain, so you can use whatever glue you think works best for you. When removing the form, the block almost always splits along the fiber instead of coming apart at the gluing, and then I remove what remains stuck to the form with a chisel, using it as a scraper to remove the last traces of glue from the form.

@@DavideSora I was thinking along the line of needing less force to dislodge the rim from the mould by using weaker glue, elmers. And then needing less effort remove the Elmer's from the mould when cleaning it up. But it seems to work very well for you. 👍

@@Zappafrank55 I prefer a glue that keeps the block glued to the form well during working, even if only spot glued, and Titebond does the job well. Hot hide glue works too, but it's less practical for this job. I've never tried Elmers glue, but I assume it works fine too

To avoid deformation when you remove the form, you must carefully bend both the ribs and the linings very close to the final shape before gluing them, without leaving too much spring effect. Especially the C's have to be bended as exactly as possible to their final shape, without having to force them into place when gluing. This also applies to the other ribs and linings, but some spring effect here is acceptable. However, the shape of the curves must be correct and when you glue them they must go into place effortlessly You can evaluate these aspects in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pLQ7DoE00JM.html And in the videos of this playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bF3cmIIipyQ.html

@@DavideSora wow, thank you, Nice learning from the master

Willow

The chamfer is made on the linings, not on the ribs, and in this phase, it is useful to extract the form more easily. After the form has been removed, the linings will be chamfered and rounded along the entire perimeter, to lighten them and make the structure less stiff. You can see the finishing of the linings in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dFVzi65U3ks.html

No, poplar for the central strip and black-stained pearwood for the two outer strips. The materials used by the old Cremonese maker

@@DavideSora I was a mistaken asking about purfling. I meant a strip from the inside of the ribs. Just don't know it's name.

@@los5mandarinas Those strips are called linings, they are made of the same wood as the blocks, i.e. Willow

@@DavideSora do you make all blocks from willow?

@@los5mandarinas Yes, only when I make a model inspired by Guarneri del Gesù do I use spruce blocks and not willow

Sorry, I don't have a Patreon page. My videos aren't even monetized

@@DavideSora it’s lovely that they aren’t. But mate, you should!!! They are first rate.

@@Jeff034 There is too much bureaucracy behind all these things, and I honestly don't like getting paid to give two tips, I prefer to answer questions in the comments or by email.🙂

@@DavideSora as a 20 year (acoustic) guitar builder the biggest hurdle with my violin is to let go of original Titebond. It’s good enough for $120,000 Martin guitars, and in all my years I’ve never had a failure and it is reversible (many necks off guitars) and I now never have finish issues - and my violins will never need to be opened - I guess I will eventually brave up to hide glue but for now there’s a trust issue… ha ha.

@@Jeff034 Not as easily reversible as hide glue, but Titebond sure does its job. There is the problem of creeping under load that they indicate on the package, but the guitars seem to disprove this problem. However, violins are made to last some centuries, for guitars I don't think they care about this aspect🙂