Violin Adventures

[@fayjacobsohn7506]

Wow, Freddie! Thanks for sharing your projects! Beautiful music, lots of honey, and two people working on instruments! Keep up the good work everyone! It looks like a race between the Diamond in the Rough and the Green instrument! Love these videos! That honey looks so good! I'll have to visit to taste some of it! Have a great week!

[@Violinsforu2]

Yes, you will have to come by! Absolutely. Freddie was so thrilled to get so many projects with more to come! I hope you have a wonderful week and we always look forward to your comments!

[@MrThomasPinch]

It's good to see a couple of luthier projects in Freddie's section. Best wishes to you both, Lorenzo and Johnny, I hope your work continues well and that you update us on your progress. Thanks, Cheryl, for the bees. I always like to see how they are doing. My neighbour here has a couple of hives, but I feel I'm better acquainted with yours over 3,000 miles away! Looking forward to hearing the Green violin in your next episode. Have a good week!

[@Violinsforu2]

Thank you, Mr Pinch! We loved your organ. Please send us more when you are ready! We will keep an eye out on the bees! We always love your comments and hope you have a wonderful week!

[@ositoCastro]

Cheryl, thank you so much. I am very honored that you posted my project, I am also very happy that Freddie has decided to play bass when he grows up. All the best to you, Freddie and Granpa. Johnny

[@Violinsforu2]

Yes, it is so special that you played that bass in the past and that you can now bring it back to its original look! Freddie will be delighted with the progress! Thanks for commenting and have a wonderful week!

[@ositoCastro]

@@Violinsforu2 likewise to you.

[@beholdhecometh2298]

Fascinating! Thank you Mr. Pinch. Pray for Lorenzo as he works on his repair.

[@Violinsforu2]

Yes, that is not an easy repair! Thanks for commenting and have a wonderful week!

[@margoils]

i'm so glad we have GOD'S natural ''wood'' to produce music on, i have listened to so many of the ''brass'' instruments and skilled people teach ''technique'' and yet all the while they never teach ''tone quality'' and of course the wood instruments we string players have, DO PRODUCE GOOD TON QUALITY AND THE QUALITY OF TONE YOU GET OUT OF THE NATURAL WOOD, IS WHAT MAKEES music so naturally conditioning our souls

[@Violinsforu2]

God gives us so many wonderful resources. He is so awesome and knows just what we need! Instruments created for His glory! Thanks for commenting and have a wonderful week!

[@MrXiaoda]

I love your program. Thanks for sharing.

[@Violinsforu2]

Thank you so much for watching the channel. We appreciate you and thank you for commenting. I hope we can keep it interesting. Have a wonderful week!

[@lorelupo3465]

Thank you for posting my project, I'm having really hard time with it...any way I'll carry on.

[@Violinsforu2]

We are all behind you! Don't give up! Let me know if I can help. Thanks for commenting!

[@ositoCastro]

Hola Lorenzo. My skills are too limited to do a job of that magnitude, but you have the courage and the will to do it.Good luck with your proyect.

[@timothywinters1075]

You can do it, Lorenzo! The worm-damage is so severe, it is the perfect plate to learn on. Like Cheryl said, let her know if you need help - she is a wonderful teacher.

[@modelenginerding6996]

Fun video! Love the shop. I have the same clock in mine.

[@Violinsforu2]

Thank you for commenting! Where are you from? Do you have some pictures you would like to share with Freddie? It sounds like you are having fun engineering from your name!!! Welcome and hope you have a wonderful week!

[@modelenginerding6996]

@@Violinsforu2 My wife and I are from northwestern US. I build small running engine models from raw materials. Also play the fiddle and am learning a little bit of instrument making.

[@Violinsforu2]

@@modelenginerding6996 That is wonderful! Send us some pictures some time of your engine models. That sounds amazing!!!

[@mccypr]

Thanks! 😎

[@Violinsforu2]

You bet! 😊. Have an awesome week!

[@wmcrash]

Two turkey vultures, eh? I bet they were attracted by the hide glue, which is really just dead cows :)

[@Violinsforu2]

Yes!!!!! Hahahaha! I love it! They could smell that dead cow but gave up looking!!!! Thank you for commenting. We miss you and hope you have a wonderful week. All the best!

[@poppyk1431]

Thanks for posting I look forward to your releases. Do you receive many violins that have been graduated to the same thickness over the complete top plate I understand some of the old makers did this as well as some of the current makers' do this. It seems to make more sense to graduate the top plates and back to prescribe thickness patterns. Have you ever tried Prim Medium violin strings? They are made in Sweden are mellow but bright and seem to last forever. Many of the top Texas fiddlers use them. I get mine from International Violin they are reasonably priced. Keep up the good work.

[@Violinsforu2]

I am so glad you enjoy the channel. We appreciate you too! I tend to graduate the top plate to a mostly uniform thickness depending on the tone, similar to the Italian makers. I don't think I have tried the Prim. I will have to look them up and give them a try. Thanks for mentioning that. Hope you have a great week!

[@timothywinters1075]

The 'Hebrew Minute' is Psalm 31:24. What a fun video. I love your organ hymn, Mr. Pinch! What a lovely old church and organ. Lorenzo has an excellent repair ahead - that is serious worm-damage! Johnny's double bass will look lovely. Was the Green violin's finger board rosewood, rather than ebony? Wishing you a great week, Cheryl. Stupidicus.

[@Violinsforu2]

Yes the fingerboard was rosewood as far as I can tell. You got the Hebrew Minute! I agree that the repairs in Freddie's corner are tough! And we need more recordings from Mr. Pinch, or maybe he can come to America and be our organist!!! Thanks for your faithful comments and hope you have a wonderful week!

[@MrThomasPinch]

Thank you for your kind comment, Mr. Winters.

[@isaiah45.3]

@@MrThomasPinch Thank you for playing the hymn so beautifully and sharing it.

[@MrThomasPinch]

​@@isaiah45.3Thank you! Glad you liked it.

[@MrThetaphi]

Around 8:50 you seem to be applying a coat of shellac to the inside of the instrument. I'm interested to learn what purpose this serves, as it is not always done, at least not in the violins I have owned (and I have opened a few).

[@Violinsforu2]

Hi Mr Thetaphi, Thanks for asking. This is a very thin coat of dissolved lac which helps to preserve the wood and keep away insects. It is an all natural preservative and is something that my mentor passed on to me. From my experience, it improved the tone also. Hope that helps and have a wonderful week!

[@MrThetaphi]

Thank you, Cheryl! I knew that shellac keeps away insects when apllied to drawers of old furniture (and makes a pleasant surface to touch), and I appreciate your notion that it also improves the tone of an instrument. Keep going with your good work, I always enjoy it!

[@Violinsforu2]

@@MrThetaphi That is awesome. It sounds like you have some wonderful projects that Freddie would love to share! Thank you for watching and commenting. We appreciate you!

[@markuswx1322]

I've heard of luthiers that take days to chalk-fit bassbars. How do you get it done so quickly?

[@Violinsforu2]

Yes! It used to take me a bit long, sometimes a whole day! But I guess practice makes it much faster. I have fit and cut over 100 bassbars, so it usually takes just a couple of hours now, and then of course, on the video, I speed it up, and then breathe a sigh of relief that if only it was that fast!!! Thank you so much for commenting and I hope you have a wonderful week!