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Sunday, November 11, 2007

 




I received a bootleg He-Man Battle Cat figure from Argentina, and lifted graphics off of the box for t-shirts. The toys are always so dangerous (easy to chip paint, and toxic plastic), but I'm a sucker for the blister artwork. Whoever does this artwork has super Napoleon drawing skills.

My friend Shimmy sold me his violin last week. I cleaned it up, redid the setup, and now it's a really good sounding violin. I should have taken a before picture, but I had no idea that I would end up doing so much work.

When I first played it, the entire thing buzzed. There were four lever-style fine tuners on the tailpiece, which I immediately removed. Removing the fine tuners cut down on the buzzing, but there was still something wrong. It turned out that the fingerboard hadn't been shaped properly, so the G and E string were resting right on the fingerboard (causing a guitar fret buzz sound).

I replaced the strings, fit a new bridge, replaced the tail piece and tail gut, arched the fingerboard, removed lots of rosin buildup from the top, and removed velvet from the upper ribs (the violin had been sitting in the case too long, and the spirit finish melted into the velvet lining).

When I finished with Shim's old violin, I adjusted the bridges on all of my other violins... much easier to play.

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iburkard.worklog

Sunday, November 11, 2007

 




I received a bootleg He-Man Battle Cat figure from Argentina, and lifted graphics off of the box for t-shirts. The toys are always so dangerous (easy to chip paint, and toxic plastic), but I'm a sucker for the blister artwork. Whoever does this artwork has super Napoleon drawing skills.

My friend Shimmy sold me his violin last week. I cleaned it up, redid the setup, and now it's a really good sounding violin. I should have taken a before picture, but I had no idea that I would end up doing so much work.

When I first played it, the entire thing buzzed. There were four lever-style fine tuners on the tailpiece, which I immediately removed. Removing the fine tuners cut down on the buzzing, but there was still something wrong. It turned out that the fingerboard hadn't been shaped properly, so the G and E string were resting right on the fingerboard (causing a guitar fret buzz sound).

I replaced the strings, fit a new bridge, replaced the tail piece and tail gut, arched the fingerboard, removed lots of rosin buildup from the top, and removed velvet from the upper ribs (the violin had been sitting in the case too long, and the spirit finish melted into the velvet lining).

When I finished with Shim's old violin, I adjusted the bridges on all of my other violins... much easier to play.

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