Christian Müller

Preparing of the top joint.

Gluing of the top.

Along the contor lines I drilled a rows of holes with a drill press.

I removed the excess wood with a chisel.

A special plane for violin building did the final carving.

It took me about eight hours of carving to reach this state.

Now I drilled the back side with the drill press. The depth stop was adjusted to a thickness of 9mm.

During the process of carving.

The inner side finished.

The braces are made of this old and fine grained piece of spruce.

I cut the f-holes with a jigsaw.

Gluing of the plastic bindings.

The braces were glued one after another to the top.

The finished top from the inner side...

... and the external side.

This is an attempt to adjust the tonebars in the way that Siminoff describes in his book. Tapping on the different bars I allways heard the same tone (between D and D#) that did not change significantly even after shaving away about 3mm of the tonebars...