A window into the Violinmakers workshop... Tools
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Master violin maker Olaf Grawert talks about some of his many unique tools.
There are a lot of strange tools, but there truly are some unique tools in violinmaking...
Insider secrets and stories from the Master Violinmaker and restorer
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I'm here from TwoSet. You're incredibly interesting and have a fantastic way of explaining things in a way that a layperson can understand. I ALMOST feel like I can string a bow now. :D
Haha, my husband also tests the knives he sharpened by shaving his arms with them. I thought he was weird, but now I know he's not the only one😄
Sharp enough to shave with. Not all guys use their arm hair strictly to ward off mosquitoes
i operate a sharpening shop. i'd run out of arm hair if i tested that way. the cat on the other hand always has enough fur.
of course i don't test sharpness on the cat.
I'm always ridiculously tickled by tiny tools. I love them
Hello just subscribed to your channel which a friend recommended. I’m a retired cabinet maker/joiner and have taken up violin making. First of all I won’t to thank you for making these videos and sharing the knowledge you’ve gained over the years. I’m now on my forth and fifths Violins and find it fascinating to see how a trained luthier goes about the job compared to a furniture maker. We both achieve a violin but with a slightly different approach in working methods. Would I be correct in thinking that the really skilled part is the plate graduations in Tuning the wood to achieve the best resonances for each piece of wood. This is the part I find the most enthralling, I have spent hours with bits of timber taping and scraping to get a good resonance. Anyway I’ve talked enough thank you again and looking forward to more videos.👍👍👍
I like those planes set!
The tiny one is soo cute:")
And it's very satisfying to see the shiny-smooth timber after planing them
Hi Olaf! I came over from the TwoSet channel and I really enjoyed your video 💖 It was really insightful and it kinda reminds me of Adam Savage's videos on Tested where he goes through all the tools he uses in his cave, like for prop-making 😂 I'm subscribed, so can't wait to see more of your content soon 🔥😘👍
Thank you. Tjis is very interesting. Would you start a violin and slowly bring it along over the next year or so while coveting your routine repairs. Could use time lapse filming to shrink the time required to do steps. Love your calming voice. It is almost therapy.
Love watching these videos - seriously, if you ever decide to make the full 2 hour tool video I'll be the first in line to watch it :D
I have sooo much trouble with glues as well as summer/winter humidity. Varnishes....omg. Very nice shop you have. Thank You.
I love learning about things like this. Thanks for making this informative video.
I'm struggling to get all the tools I need. It is very expensive here in Brazil because they have to be imported from other countries. But I will get there. Thanks for the video!
I can imagine... keep at it 🙂
dude! that first saw looked like a steak knife! gotta agree with you on the lie-nielsen planes. i see your tormek in the background too.
Ohhhh, there's nothing like a perfectly sharpened tool shaving away wood like butter!
Japanese tools really are nice...have you seen the Dozuki saw? I feel so gloriously dangerous whenever I go to use mine : )
I want to become a violin maker! Unfortunately I am an oboist. I guess I am stuck making reeds.
I would love to know more about your sharpening stones.
Sharp chisels eh. Now I have also noticed that you have such good looking, handsome, chiseled facial features. By the way, do you have a friend called Pinocchio ?
Pinocchio is my brother!
(Why did my nose just get longer?)
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker Ha, ha ,ha. 😂. Love your videos. Keep up the good work. All the best.
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker how thick should the blank to carve the top from be
The sharpest tool is the one using the tools
That is Not a given.
These tools aren't as strange as a piano builder's tools. they can get pretty niche!
Hey Olaf
How much do you recomend spending on a thickness caliper for plates? I've seen everything from $50-500? A bit lost.
Heya Olaf! What would you say is the absolute minimum set of tools someone would need to build a violin?
Like imagine you had to start up a workshop from zero. What would you need to buy?
Have no idea where one gets these. Never seen them as they are highly specialized and I bet very expensive. I have a violin kit I want to build.
Probably you can find them in every workshop
how do u sharpen such tools like the reamer, those fine saws, or that double pointed thing used to start the purfling?
Hey Olaf, have you thought of grinding one of the side edges off the file to help not having to file your fingernails when doing your nut?
Question, where do you get or make these? Many of them seem very specialized for luthiers.
interesting
I just have a general question that I started to think about last night and can not find an answer to this morning yet. But it is Is the grain on the ribs horizontal to the top and bottom plate or vertical to them?
I noticed your soundpost setter has a hole in it. Is that for hanging it on a hook?
Hmm... it's just how it came, but that's probably the purpose of the hole...
Funny, I have had that soundpost setter for well over 25 years, but never really thought about that.
Cool video, sawyer here but there's a lot of little fiddly details with any woodworking involving complex curves that are going to be handled constantly so the love of odd little scrapers and planes is mutual.
I didn't see how you prefer to support your plates when you cope them out, something like a big jeweler's V or clamping it to a board hanging over the edge of your table I bet. I had to make a little lap braced V so I could get a proper up/down coping stroke to stop snapping blades cutting out handles/wasting out dovetails like I did when I clamped them vertically in a face vice.
I notice the japanese chisels and get that, I don't like pull teeth myself and I'd rather not buy another saw anyways, but have you seen iwasaki carving files?
There's a video on here with a guitar maker trying them out against his other rasps including his gorgeous (and pricy!) Auriou that made me grab a coarse skew neck curved, medium straight curved, and fine handlemaker curved (that one is weird, has a backwards curve and the teeth are pull instead of push so the approach feels wrong at first) which are all delightfully efficient at slicing away rasp marks/saw marks/cleaning up curves.
I'd totally use the skew to wipe away the chisel marks followed by the handlemaker one if I was hollowing out a belly inside a violin.
Derp, forgot the link, thought I pasted it already: ruclips.net/video/IS8tkTkkdtg/видео.html
Dude has that look which I bet you'll understand when he's gazing at his lovely Auriou like "...these iwasaki files should not be so close to you, my darling" because those handstitched rasps really are gorgeous, but dang!
I want to build a violin. Do you have a list of the minimum supplies needed to do so?
Does the sound post sit right under the bridge?
No, just inside and just behind the treble foot.
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