Author: Kaccho
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Sawing practice with scrap wood
Cutting lumber specially imported from overseas for the first time is a significant undertaking, so I’m being extremely cautious. After researching cutting methods, I found that using a bandsaw is generally recommended. However, a bandsaw capable of cutting through 20cm-thick maple and spruce is quite expensive, and considering how often I’d use it, I’m unsure…
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The Template
Although I was going to make a violin, I had no idea how to shape all those curves, but as I researched, I learned about templates. Templates are like “patterns” or “stencils” in Japanese terms – guides for creating specific shapes. While having them doesn’t make the job incredibly easy, they’re undoubtedly valuable tools, especially…
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Tools for Making Violin
When it comes to tools, it’s really frustrating because each one is expensive, yet you don’t know how well they’ll work until you actually use them. This is a major disadvantage of being self-taught. However, I couldn’t just stay stuck, so I looked at various sites and videos, and this time I decided to collect…
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Violin Making, Step by step
While gathering information about violin making by looking at many violin makers’ websites and forums, I decided I needed books too, and this is what I chose to purchase: “Violin Making” by Henry A. Strobel. I also ordered another book, “Art & Method of the Violin Maker” as a reference, but it might be a…
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Workbench
I built my own workbench for violin making. It’s actually a wheeled movable desk I made years ago, now fixed in place. It’s built into part of a large bookshelf, which is very firmly secured with scaffolding jacks wedged between it and the ceiling. There’s also a jack under the center of the table top,…
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Making the Violin ウェブサイト
先日投稿した記事の情報元の一つにmakingtheviolin.comというサイトがあります。これがよくできたサイトでして、バイオリンの製作過程をひととおり公開しているサイトなのです。 まだ全てを読めてはいないのですが、部品の細かい寸法なども記載してあってとても参考になる資料です。また、実際にこのサイトを見たり活用したりした人たちのコメントも公開されており、提供されている図面に関する意見や実際の作業との相違点などが指摘されています。 特にインターネット上の情報は信憑性が疑問視されることが多いので、このサイト全てを鵜呑みにして作業することなく、一つの手法として活用するつもりです。その他にも情報源に書籍が２〜３冊、YouTubeチャンネルが複数あり、これらをよく吟味しながら着手していく予定です。 お正月休み中なので、じっくりにらめっこしています😊
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2025 is coming!
I posted my aim for next year on YouTube! I have embedded a video in the blog article of piano tuning website. Please take a look. I was trying to figure out what kind of photo to use as the thumbnail, so I decided to make it look like someone was holding a violin and…
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Maple
As a piano tuner for many years, I have often worked with spruce, a wood that I am familiar with, but I was not very familiar with maple. As far as what I’ve worked with before, it’s basically just the wooden parts of hammer heads. And even then, they come almost fully manufactured from parts…
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Material: Tonewood has arrived
We ordered wood to make violins from Tonewood in Slovakia, and it arrived just before the end of the year. Technically it was supposed to be delivered tomorrow, but I was so excited that I went to pick it up. Only the fingerboard was obtained separately, so the contents included are as follows. この投稿をInstagramで見る Kaccho’s…
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Gathering informationon Violin Making
Since deciding to try making a violin, I’ve been constantly searching online. My initial search term was “How to make a violin,” and I looked at various sites and videos. Here, I’d like to share some websites that I found particularly useful, although they’re all in English. They’re listed in the order I discovered them.…
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