530 RSW 1880s Stradivari Step Child Neck Adjustment Part 1

[@bobl2995]

Thanks Jerry another fantastic video 🇬🇧

[@therealzilch]

Speaking as an instrumentmaker who has repaired many a violin: kudos. Nice work and great explanations. Lunch is on me if you're ever in town. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

[@johnhead5699]

Yes, a pallet knife. I have one and used it the same way. Thin tempered steel doesn't bend easily.

[@bruceducker2029]

You can tell you guys have been working close together for some time when you finish each others sentences. Thanks for the content, waiting patiently for the nest episode.

[@CALVINLNIKONT]

I have a couple of knives like that and they are butter knives. Very thin and springy steel.

[@richardingraham6353]

I have my grandfather old fiddle , 100+ years old . I hope to do some work on it if I ever get my new shop building going . Hope all are well 😁

[@paularcherfiddle0351]

I find very hot water in the joint works very well. Just falls apart with no damage.

[@Reynevan94]

The fact that controller overshoots is because it reaches the target temperature fast - it could be made to overshoot less or not at all, but then it’d heat up much longer. I wager inside is PID controller, and that’s how they work. The other thing is that as you noticed, it oscillates around target as it settles: this oscillation can be also made shorter (maybe, if we’re not yet at fastest settle time) but overshoot would be even higher

[@jeffgrier8488]

I'm betting that the violin turns out fantastic!

[@arnoldmmbb]

Quite old fellow, sure has a nice voice

[@dscdrkel5546]

I DID NOT HEAR IT PLAYED , HOW GOULD YOU TELL IT HS A VOICE.*** DR KEL

[@zapa1pnt]

1889 is when my grandfather was born. He was born in the US, his parents came here from Denmark. I have a 4/4 violin, from an uncle, by marriage to my grandfather's other daughter. He was 3 years younger than my grandfather. (that went over big 🙄😣🤬) The violin was given to him, as a child. I suspect he was 9 or 10, because it is a 4/4. It has no maker's name but was made in Germany. I believe it was new, when he got it, which, I figure, means it was made between 1899 and 1901.

[@roryloftin6493]

This time can you instruct us how to do a sound post installation thanks a bunch

[@zombeatle01]

Why not use the heat sticks on the neck joint?

[@gryzew]

I got pretty anxious about that scalpel blade bending left and right, that a break could result in a pretty nasty cut. Don't even wanna think about a piece of it flying off.

[@davidhawkes1328]

Have you considered adapting a blade to fit an electric variable temperature soldering iron?

[@zapa1pnt]

That might be do-able, for 1 blade, but after the blade dulls or breaks, it would be a pain in the bee-hind, to have to do it again and again and again.

[@davidhawkes1328]

@@zapa1pnt I take your point but heating a blade against a hot iron will cool off too quickly. Perhaps some consideration could be made for adapting a soldering iron to take these blades. As far as I am aware the tip on a soldering iron either screws in or is just held in place with a screw. That being the case a scalpel handle could be cut down and and turned to fit, then all you would have to do is, when the blade needs changing, just pull it out with a pair of pliers and fit a new one. The only other consideration could be, would the blade loose its temper due to the heat?

[@robozstarrr8930]

@@davidhawkes1328 ....bought a 25 watt wood burning pen on Analzon for a delicate wood joint clean-out...has treaded end for different holders (one being regular size #11 x-acto blade) but, you can't jam in there & all around about like Jerry was doing. A #11 scalpel fit fine too... ( after i broke my last x-acto blade and couldn't find my spares ). Cheers

[@davidhawkes1328]

@@robozstarrr8930 That sounds like it would do the job. Far better than what Jerry is currently using

[@jameswilburn5406]

Remember that at 451degrees F wood cellulose bursts into flame!!!!!

[@danielsaturnino5715]

Jerry, I work a month for what you make in 10 hours xD makes me wonder my life choices...

[@RosaStringWorks]

Sounds really great... but there is more to it. Overhead, 40 years of scratching to make ends meet, before I finally got enough of a following to up my prices. by the time I pay all the expenses involved in a business like this, it is not nearly as profitable as it sounds.

[@gryzew]

Income is not same as profit. I don't think there's a single person in the world who'd say "I went into guitar repair mainly for the money".

[@danielsaturnino5715]

@@gryzew Good point.

[@TgWags69]

I'm pretty sure your heater would have an absolute max temp of 1220 degrees F

[@timpaul8888]

My approach would have been to have left the old fingerboard the fiddle and resurfaced it.

[@timpaul8888]

I also respect that Jerry had good reason for replacing the old fingerboard and I hope that one day I Will be as good as a luthier as he Is.

[@forthwithtx5852]

That white pencil nub looked like a cigarette. Kept looking at it. Nope. Still a pencil.

[@paulvaillancourt5659]

Way easy to open up one's hand. Have plenty of scars for pay.

[@stereoandy77]

The harder you press, the more you are tightening that joint against you as you are torquing that scroll against your workstation

[@micheloderso]

If i may say: Gluejob Quality made in Germany? ;-)

[@Mycroftsbrother]

If you find an appendix in there, go ahead and cut that out too.

[@dscdrkel5546]

I have a 1736 Stradivari made in Italy*the value was destroyed by some idiot changing the pegs with metal friction tuners.**DR KEL

[@nationalduo4945]

I would have declined the job…

[@twokool4skool129]

You've posted this video before.

[@nellayema2455]

Did you watch the entire video? I thought so at first, but stuck around and see that the first part was posted in another video. It's in this one as an intro of sorts.

[@kylenyen2939]

$8,000 repair...... You're joking right?