It Looks Like a Violin!

There is tons of new progress to report for today...as well as a couple of pictures to help in the understanding of how some of the stuff was done. So...here goes.

Today, the violin, which is now named Violet (thanks to Angie :-) took form. I glued on all of her ribs...and as a reminder, Violet has ribs that are all slab cut (hence the pretty curly forms that are the grain lines of the wood). Also, I received her top today as well...it is very beautiful. The wood for it is Engelmann spruce that has been drying for at least 50 years. It is absolutely flawless and phenomenal (sorry, that was my geek showing...)

And now: Violet in pictures




















This is the top for my violin. It will soon look like an actual violin...but for now, that's how tops come, they take their form through a lot of planing with a block plane (i.e. by hand) Pretty cool right??






This is my classmate carving the blocks ...just thought i'd include this to show how the corners take their shape.





The piece of wood is the linings...they will be cut up into about 6 different 10 mm wide pieces and will go inside the violin. The black thing...a block plane.