iburkard.worklog
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Half of my Thanksgiving weekend consisted of sewing, and more sewing. My favorite violins coffin had been left in disrepair for too long, and needed to be relined. I was actually in the habit of placing two violins within the same open case (one inside the main compartment, and then another one resting in the lid), which was pretty ridiculous.
It's usually part of my repertoire to repaint and polish everything so that it looks almost new, but I held back on this one, and left the violin case as it should be... refurbished, not restored. In retrospect, I'm glad that I didn't over clean it (although, I did gut the interior, and add a wooden flap to replace the old fabric/paper one).
I spent the rest of my weekend in NJ. It was nice to get away from my apartment, spend time with family, walk around and enjoy the fall, and eat food. I had so much pie.
I have too many new illustration books... too many violin projects to talk about (...think, 18th Century... think Baroque.) I received some mother of pearl scales for a violin, and some white pearl for purfling. I also received some aged wood for bass bars and posts, and more wood for making my own bridges. I'm just waiting on some standard purfling and a glue pot, and then I'll begin my personal project. But, for now, I'm very busy trying to figure out the best way to baroque a classical violin.
The violin in my last post now belongs to a young musician!
It's usually part of my repertoire to repaint and polish everything so that it looks almost new, but I held back on this one, and left the violin case as it should be... refurbished, not restored. In retrospect, I'm glad that I didn't over clean it (although, I did gut the interior, and add a wooden flap to replace the old fabric/paper one).
I spent the rest of my weekend in NJ. It was nice to get away from my apartment, spend time with family, walk around and enjoy the fall, and eat food. I had so much pie.
I have too many new illustration books... too many violin projects to talk about (...think, 18th Century... think Baroque.) I received some mother of pearl scales for a violin, and some white pearl for purfling. I also received some aged wood for bass bars and posts, and more wood for making my own bridges. I'm just waiting on some standard purfling and a glue pot, and then I'll begin my personal project. But, for now, I'm very busy trying to figure out the best way to baroque a classical violin.
The violin in my last post now belongs to a young musician!
