Violin Set-Up II & Basic Repair - Tools and Materials
Instructor: Paul Wiessmeyer
Required Book: Henry A.Strobel "Useful Measurements for violin makers: A reference for shop use"
Materials and instruments are not included in the tool box rental. It is the responsibility of participants to bring their own materials and violins for set-up.
Materials:
- Two new violins not previously set up with good quality ebony fingerboards. Please--no old or unvarnished violins. Viola, cello, fractional size, or five string instruments are optional. (From any supplier of new Chinese student instruments)
- Violin Pegs--shafts must be larger than the peg holes and the peg box
- 5 French bridges, Model #7 MIRECOURT. Violin 4/4, 41.5 mm
- 3 different set of strings, i.e. steel, gut, perlon --two sets of used violin strings are ok too
- Nikko polish
- Violin sound post material
- Violin tail pieces, tail gut, fine tuners, large end buttons. If you plan to work on instruments other than violin, please bring the appropriate materials and accessories for set-up.
Materials Suppliers:
- Howard Core www.howardcore.com
- Metropolitan Music Co. www.metmusic.com
- International Violin Co. LTD www.internationalviolin.com
- Stewart MacDonald Century www.stewmac.com
- Strings www.centurystrings.com
- Nova Strings www.novastrings.com
All students are required to have their tools in hand at the beginning of the class! Students who do not wish to purchase the tools can rent a tool box. Original # 9 1/2 Stanley block planes in good working order are available for purchase from Randy Kellogg. Thanks to the 2016 donation of tools in memory of a past participant, Adrian Teuscher, the Institute has a limited supply of tools to supplement tool box rentals. Toolboxes containing all the tools mentioned below can also be rented from Randy Kellogg. Please contact Randy Kellogg directly at 603-495-3643 to inquire about rental fee and availability.
Tools: | Sources | Purpose | Quantity | |
Rigid 12"/30cm ruler
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Metropolitan Music & Howard Core | |||
Alcohol lamp (removing nut @ times) | ||||
1mm or 1/32" drill bit for peg string holes | ||||
Power or hand drill | ||||
Chinrest key | ||||
Nut files | ||||
Bridge template(s) | bostonfiddle.com, Metropolitan Music, Cat. #29230, Metropolitan Music & Howard Core | |||
Scraper set; Japanese | Metropolitan Music, Cat. #29230 | |||
Sound Post angle jig | bostonfiddle.com | |||
Parchments | bostonfiddle.com, Metropolitan Music, Cat. #29230, Metropolitan Music & Howard Core | |||
Sharp pencil & notebook | Your own source | 1 | ||
Large Towel | Your own source | 1 | ||
Pointed Tweezers | Your own source | 1 | ||
Violin Makers' Knife, 3.5 mm, AND 19mm | Diefenbacher or Howard core | 1each | ||
Adjustable 9 1/2 Block Plane | Stanley, Randy Kellogg | 1 | ||
Sound Post Setter for violin | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Soundpost restriever | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Compass - Divider | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Small machinist square | wood craft | 1 | ||
Sandpaper, 80, 120, 150, 220, 320 grit | Hardware store | 1 of each | ||
Wet & dry sandpaper, 60-420 grids | see suppliers below | |||
Water bench stones for honing, various grids | see suppliers below | sharpen hand tools | course-fine | |
Optivisor # 5 | optional | |||
1 inch C clamps | Hardware store | 8 pieces | ||
Inspecton Mirror | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Flexible Stainless Steel Ruler 300mm | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
SEMI-Rigid Stainless Steel Ruler 300mm | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Measuring tape metric and inches | Hard ware store | 1 | ||
Palette Knife straight, extra thin | Local Artist Store | to glue openings | 1 | |
Grobet DOUBLE CUT Flat File, Cut 0 or similar | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Mouse tail file extra coarse, Grobet needle file round, cut 1 | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Herdim Crack Clamp 280mm | see suppliers below | for gluing cracks | ||
Herdim Crack Clamp 180mm | see suppliers below | glue cracks | ||
SMALL HAND SAW | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Rectangular SCRAPER, 150X50X0.25 MM | see suppliers below | to scrape finger board | 1 | |
Herdim or Alberti Design Peg Shaper | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Violin Peg Reamer - Standard (do not buy spiral!) | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Drill bits 1, 1.5, 2, 1.5, 3, 4, 5 mm | Hard ware store | 1 each | ||
Hammer, small | Hard ware store | 1 | ||
Vernier slide Caliper | 1 | |||
Three sided burnisher for scrapers | Diefenbacher | 1 | ||
Japanese saw file | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Scratch awl | 1 | |||
Pitchpipe A 440 | 1 | |||
Hill peg lube | 1 | |||
Polish cloth (good quality cotton rag) | 1 | |||
Cleaning cloth (good quality cotton rag) | 1 | |||
Violin bridge jack | Howard Core | 1 | ||
Black grease pencil or carbon paper | 1 | |||
Steel wool 0000 | 1 | |||
Soft White chalk (Pelikan) | see suppliers below | 1 | ||
Several carving gouges, various sizes and sweeps | three to four | |||
Several chisels, various widths | three to four | |||
Watercolor kit and 3 fine brushes | Pelikan | |||
Alcohol soluble varnishing retouch materials and colors can be purchased from: | wood finishing enterprises | available during class | ||
Various retouch brushes, including several very fine natural hair Kolinsky rotmarder bristle brushes | art store | |||
Various inexpensive sablette synthetic bristle brushes | art store |
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Questions for Paul Wiessmeyer - inquiries@bostonfiddle.com