Good luck taking anything from me! Just funning,,, maby 😂. Thanks for the information as usual.

I learnt but I forgot so im here 😂 tho I was the worst in the orchestra

Thanks for this one Olaf. I live in Germany now and while close to Zurich, Mittenwald is not too far away from an Australian point of view.

Hello Olaf, is it still a thing to balance your bow on your pointer finger to check its balance? A good balanced bow will balance closer to the frog about 1/4 to a bit less than a third of way across the bow. That is what I was taught. Thank you for your insight.

Why would you oil a bridge? I can't think of a better way to deaden its response...

Olaf, I really like your honesty about your violins made in China. How did you come up with the name "Piere Lomont"? Was he actually a French luthier, or made up name?

A bit late commenting but this really is fantastic, thank you for the video !

Ray is such a treasure. Wonderful man

Probably a 20% buyer's premium also, which added another $2.6 million to the cost. So, $15.6 million.

Another outstanding restoration you’ve done, Olaf. It’s amazing what you are able to fix on an instrument a century and a half old ! Skill, patience, and a bit of artistry. Bravo !

Thank You Olaf! Now I'll look like a real hero to my granddaughter! 😃

You definitely pack them well. I got my Piere Lomont Master violin from you all the way here in the USA and it arrived in perfect order.

Absolutely breathtaking beautiful repair. I have an old timer French fiddle made before 1736 looks dark like this one.

Do/did the luthiers who repair violins paste in it their labels?

Always enjoy your videos. Between you and Daniel Chan Olsen, I've learned a lot about violin repair. One suggestion: you should invest in a very good microphone for recording your instruments. With an ordinary one - like you're using here - a good violin just sounds like a bad harmonica.

A very interesting pair of videos. The restoration was beautifully done, if I wasn’t on the other side of the world in Canada I would being my violin to you to restore.

LOL I have a violin that is about 100-125 yrs old (belonged Tommy Gr. Aunt) that needs to be restored but I am not going to try and do it myself, and I am going to look for a proficient luthier to restore it. 😊

Hi Olaf, love your video's as always. Ps are your T-shirts available online, thanks🙂

You did a beautiful job on the repair and the video. Thank you for sharing!

Well done. What is the oldest one you have worked on?

Olaf, my friend. I've been watching your videos for a while now, I absolutely love the work that you do and thoroughly enjoy watching so much of your repair content. It has given me a new found respect for the instrument and more so the craftsman behind them, it's so inspiring I almost feel the urge to become someone's pupil at age 28 LOL. That said, Olaf....Your name is Olaf the Violin Maker. My friend, Please, please. When do we get the multi-part series of Olaf making a master violin from start to finish? Take us on the whole journey, please. No holds barred, going all out, Hand made masterwork violin. Show us the planning phase, the sourcing phase, the prepping phase and as many videos as it takes for the building phase. Please Olaf I would be delighted for this series! with some nice editing this could be such an amazingly entertaining video series. <3

Thank you so very much for your teaching and inspiration. I'm just starting this wonderful journey. I'm having a great time playing for myself at 69 years young. You have inspired me to buy a kit and build it for myself. What a special and wonderful thing this pursuit is! Thank you dearly, from Texas USA.

I've been building for some time now Olaf and I've never seen varnish do that

Little slip there at the end, 1760s, that's 260 years.

I like the different characters that Olaf sometimes does in these videos. I have used Olaf's bridge adjustment process several times. It works perfectly. As Olaf points out in other videos, if you pegs are sticky, they make it much harder to tune. He shows how to apply tuning peg paste (W.E. Hill peg paste is a great choice).

I appreciate these training videos. I study them repeatedly and I follow the Olaf violin care gospel.

For humidity, although it sounds like a legend, resists changes in climate much better. I use in a island whit 60/80% of humidity and its works for violins.

Aldi in Australia is selling that violin for AUD$41.99 right now, I don't think there's an argument not to buy it.

May be try baking paper as your counter-mold liner.

I really enjoy your work I've learned a lot from you but I believe you should wear a mask while playing and scraping ebony I would not want to see you get sick

I have a Wurlitzer violin, which means it was made before 1924 I think it was when they stopped making them. I has "Professional" written on the scroll, what would be vaguely its worth?

Why don’t Violins have machine head tuners like guitars? Surely it would be easier and better. Please don’t tell me it would ruin the sound as I just don’t believe that.

Finger placement

I am glad I found you.

Hi, Olaf. I'm curious about how long this took. How many work days was this in your shop and how many hours did the job take? Thank you. 😁✌🖖

I can't get enough of your skits and characters Olaf

Very interesting process! 👏

Another excellent vid....can't wait for the next one

Such a beauty and sound that transends time. It's simply amazing.

Btw, where does this instrument fall on your previous ‘levels of restoration’ scale?

One of your more in-depth repair videos, and much appreciated. You’re right; a button inlay is not a job for a hobbyist luthier.

Que trabajo tan impresionante ❤ muchísimas felicitaciones 😮😮😮😊

do you re-graduate german french trade violins?

Fantastic!❤

Completely wonderful!

I would like to have heard you play the violin more when you got done because it had a really sweet mellow sound to it. I would really like to have heard that. I do really enjoy all of your repair videos. Even the flat bridge society with two step.

So after you glued the new fingerboard huh, you needed to take it back off to work on the neck?

Really interesting work and an interesting violin. Any idea why the f-holes are so large?

Hi Olaf. Could you do a short video some time going through what all the different instruments you have in your studio are? I'm always amazed by how many there are. Presumably you aren't working on that many instruments at once?