Trade Secrets: Preparing the neck-block on a violin before scroll carving

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Katharina Neumüller presents an efficient, accurate method for the earlier parts of neck carving, before working on the scroll

If you want to work efficiently in violin making, it is inevitable that you will at some point think about the individual work processes. Does a step make sense at a certain point in the process? What is the function of the part in the overall concept? Which is more important: the function or the decoration?…

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