Summer Course 2011

Monday 29th August.

Sadly I had to miss working on the violin in May due to a shoulder injury I incurred whilst gardening (being impatient and not waiting for Ed to move a large urn for me!) My shoulder is still not quite right but I decided I could delay no longer and just be careful.. The first day felt quite productive I was able to almost finish scraping out the back piece and get some more saw cuts on the scroll.

The markings show how painstaking it is to get the piece to its correct thickness, its a matter of scrape measure, scrape measure etc etc. We use dial calipers for maximum accuracy and at this stage i was using a scraper rather than the thumb planes.

 The scroll is still in its early stages really.. quite a way to go yet. Its useful to have something else to work on when the scraping gets too tedious :-)

Overall a very satisfying start to the week.

It was lovely to be back and see some of the people I met last year and lots of new faces too.

Tuesday 30th