Completed September 2020.
This was my first attempt at building a violin since violin-making school, 35 years earlier. Traditionally, the top plate of the violin body is made of spruce, but I messed up the only piece of spruce tone wood I had, so I tried again with a length of vertical grain Douglas Fir that was left over from a furniture project. Note the very wide grain. Or should I say, just try to ignore it. This top was very difficult to carve, especially since I had only one small gouge that wasn’t very sharp.
