Completed May 2021
My grandson, born just before I started this violin. Like both his father and mother, Luka is blond and blue-eyed, and I wanted to make a blond violin with just a hint of blue under the rim of the overhang. It didn’t turn out as I’d envisioned, though, as the top layers of amber varnish turned the blue to green. All attempts to correct this problem failed, as you can clearly see from the finished violin. People often comment that they find the instrument very “interesting.” It sounds better than it looks.
