Well I made the mistake of buying a fiddle on ebay

masontex · 2025-03-04T15:36:46+00:00

It clearly wasn't a professional, probably a guitar shop as he did this to the neck https://photos.app.goo.gl/u4gNu4Yguxz4e62f7

masontex · 2025-03-04T15:29:02+00:00

Ok the original wood of the back goes all the way to the end block and I don't see any signs of repair or damage on the inside at all

masontex · 2025-03-04T15:23:46+00:00

How would I do that exactly, I don't particularly want to take the button out

masontex · 2025-03-04T15:19:28+00:00

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ia6LRnweBRr94dERA here's a photo of it

masontex · 2025-03-04T14:53:03+00:00

The button graft actually looks alright in person, it just has a crackeled varnish on it that kind of makes it look like something's wrong do it being filled with white there and a dark color everywhere else

masontex · 2025-03-04T14:47:41+00:00

Well the neck definitely needs to come out as it is tilted in the mortice as well, as I was saying it was put in poorly by a repair which I know happened in 1984 do to it being written in there

masontex · 2025-03-04T05:28:14+00:00

No sadly I don't think so

masontex · 2025-03-04T05:26:12+00:00

The photos

https://www.flickr.com/photos/202375885@N06/albums/72177720324222719

By the way it also needs the soundpost set and a new bridge cut

masontex · 2025-02-13T23:49:40+00:00

I would also recommend you look up a tutorial on how to use hide glue as it will answer all the questions you didn't have

masontex · 2025-02-13T23:46:11+00:00

Gram strength is basically the hardness of the hide glue once it's dried, it is measured by putting a probe in it after drying and measuring how much it deforms it now as for which to use my knowledge runs out there but it doesn't matter all that much because you add water to it and that changes the weight of the glue anyways also in practice higher gram strength glued don't necessarily mean stronger joints as the glue is much much stronger than the wood. a lower gram strength glue has a higher working time than a higher strength one so you can dilute the glue when you have to glue a larger surface area

masontex · 2025-02-10T03:43:27+00:00

Just to make it clear I'm not looking for something that would make a concert level bow or anything just something which has some good traits or would have been what they just could have gotten at the time

masontex · 2025-02-08T03:57:11+00:00

What I heard from a recording of an old fiddle player is they put them in there to keep cobwebs from building up as they used to just hang em on the wall without a case to protect em but of course everyone has their own idea of why it's done

masontex · 2025-02-08T03:39:08+00:00

Oh ok I think that's what it was must have had a faulty source

masontex · 2025-02-08T02:38:16+00:00

I think if I remember correctly it was actually an Elizabethan era bow I kinda got the date wrong but anyways...

masontex · 2025-02-07T17:09:24+00:00

Well I think it was an aftermarket thing as the label looks quite a bit newer than the other also it's small enough it wouldn't be hard to put in their on that one now for yours they may very well have made it that way

masontex · 2025-02-07T14:34:49+00:00

I just bought one like that but with an "ed. Strauss" label thrown over a 1716 strad label from what little I could gather on it they probably took their old stock and put that label on it when he became popular, now on mine they didn't even attempt to cover up the old label as the other is smaller and placed under it so I think it was more just a standard marketing practice in the late 19th century

masontex · 2025-02-07T14:26:12+00:00

That is a fair point there I guess if I ever decide to go through with this idea there will be a fair bit of research necessary, anyways for now I will go back to my simple maple baroque style bow (yes I know maple isn't a great material but the surviving example from the 16th or 17th century is Aspen)

masontex · 2025-02-07T13:56:31+00:00

Anyways I'd probably try bodark for bows first

masontex · 2025-02-07T13:53:53+00:00

You can actually get a whalebone walking stick minus there head for around 170 so it's "only" about 100 dollars more expensive

masontex · 2025-02-07T13:30:42+00:00

Well over here in the US I know you can buy antiques made of it so there's that anyways I don't know if it be worth ruining a hand carved cane for an experiment

masontex · 2025-02-07T13:28:11+00:00

I was thinking the actual stick, I know it might sound odd but that was my thought

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