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Page 6 — Arched Plate Carving, Part Three by Chris Burt |
Here are color versions of several of the photos:
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Splitting brace wood with the grain. |
Planing the bar flat. |
Trimming the bar end. |
Drawing bridge position. |
Marking the bar location. |
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Tracing the arching onto the bar. |
Refining the fit of the bar. |
Cleats stabilize the bar. |
Examine the joint. |
Clamping the bar. |
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Mark bar heights. |
Taper the bar sides. |
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Page 18 — Meet the Maker: Bernard Millant by Jonathon Peterson |
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Amédée Dieudonné's workshop in Mirecourt in May of 1946. From Left to right: Amédée, Eugene Guinot, Jean Eulry, Marcel Thomassiu (foreground), and Michel Lotte, son of bow maker François Lotte. Bernard Millant spent two and a half years studying violin making in the Dieudonné shop. |
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The Morizot brothers' workshop in Mirecourt in May of 1948. Back row, from the left: Brothers Marcel, Louis, Paul, André, and George Morizot. Front row, left, is a young Bernard Millant. The other young man is Louis Morizot's son. |
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A Sunday in New York, March 1949. Jacques Français, who was to become a world renown violin expert, is behind the wheel of this sharp 1941 Buick convertible. Accompanying Jacques are his daughter, and Bernard Millant. |
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Bernard making a violin at the Moscow USSR National Exhibition. This photo did not appear in the magazine. |
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Bernard steps out of his Paris shop in 1989 to get some natural light. |
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“In the back room with my desk, 1995.” This photo did not appear in the magazine. |
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Bernard Millant at the 2004 Violin Society of America meeting in Portland Oregon. |
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Page 42 — Alternative Headstock Decoration and Truss Rod Adjustment Access by R.M. Mottola |
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Transfering a laser printed image directly to the wood of the back. |
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Thomas Coughlin's wild marquetry designs. |
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Mottola headstock engraved by desktop CNC. |
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Peghead and rosette by Adrian Lucas. |
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Author R.M. Mottola's informative web site. |
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Page 48 — Seeking the Top by Michael Sanden |
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Here are four shots that appeared in the magazine. But they are so much better in color. |
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Here's one that did not appear in the magazine. Michael visits a real "log house," that is, a house made of a single hollow log. |
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Page 50 — A Flattop Mandolin Resurrection by John Calkin |
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Before. |
Braces removed. |
New braces. |
The back. |
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All better. |
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Page 54 — Puerto Rican Tiple Conference by Fred Casey |
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Here's Paulo De Souza and Richard Roberge playing Brazilian Cavaquinhos. |
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Some young pros jamming at the tiple conference. |
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Author Fred Casey (right) plays the travel guitar he built for the conference while Edwin Colon Zayas plays a tiple. |
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A tiple doliente with two tiples requinto |
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Fred and his wife Kate Ferris pose with a spectacular tiple float.
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Page 62 — Product Reviews by James Condino |
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Three photos of one-handed players of string instruments. They didn't have SawStop. |
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Two views of an aluminum pawl after it has been fired to stop the blade. |
See the Sawstop web page. |
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