Work in progress

I’m currently making a baroque violin after the ‘Alard’ Amati of 1649 now housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Follow me on Instagram for the most up to date ‘in progress’ pictures

If you are interested, I am also in the throes of a long restoration job – an 18th Century former pub! You can see a blog we’re keeping of the progress by clicking the link below. Do sign up via the blog to ‘follow’ if you’d like to see how things progress!

https://queensheadhouse.wordpress.com/

Latest images

Below are images of my latest work – do check back regularly as this page is updated regularly. The latest is a baroque violin after Jacob Stainer 1679. See more finished pictures here.

 

Full
Full
Body
Body
Back
Back
scroll
scroll begining
finished body
back
back on
f hole
plates
belly arched
back arched
back purfling
back corners
belly corner
purfling ready
back roughing out
belly roughing out
linings
ribs
corner blocks
ribs ready
head-back
head-side2
head
head-side
shoulder
back
body
fingerboard
bodyfront
full
DSC_0010_1
DSC_0001_1
DSC_0003_2
DSC_0003_1
DSC_0006_2
IMG_0938[1]
IMG_0888[1]
IMG_0940[1]
IMG_0883[1]
IMG_0939[1]
IMG_0878[1]
IMG_0877[1]
IMG_0876[1]
IMG_0874[1]
IMG_0875[1]
DSC_0028
DSC_0027
DSC_0018
DSC_0021
IMG_0631
IMG_0630
IMG_0629
IMG_0632
IMG_0628
DSC_0257
DSC_0255
DSC_0256
DSC_0254
IMG_0435
IMG_0434
DSC_0025
DSC_0026
DSC_0023
DSC_0037
DSC_0036
DSC_0035
DSC_0031
DSC_0029
DSC_0032
DSC_0030
IMG_0208
IMG_0209
IMG_0210
DSC_0038
DSC_0039
DSC_0040
Bass viol after Henry Jaye
rose
Decorated scroll
rose
Walnut back
varnish room
Decorated scroll with plum pegs
Decorated scroll
Neck block
body detail
Finished body ready for the neck
Glueing on the belly
bellyoutside
Shaping the outside of the belly
Finished profile
Inside surface after glueing and levelling the edge
Glueing on the outer staves
Glueing together the central staves of the belly
purfling
shavings
completed back & ribs
Finished purling
Glueing the ribs onto the back
Glueing on the sound post plate