I've Been Wanting to Learn the Violin

Have you looked at the complexity in carving and toning the top and back? Holy smokes! :eek:

A short guide is here: http://www.platetuning.org/html/plate_tuning_4_dummies.html

A somewhat more scholarly treatment is here: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/chladni.html (and links off of that page, but I found the chladni plate discussion to be .. almost.. understandable).

I started looking at this stuff a while back because a friend had talked about pocket violins (specifically pochette's some rather fantastic modern examples of which can be found here: http://www.owenmorse-brown.com/pochette.htm and a moderately well done amateur build here: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/pochette.html) which I found rather interesting and thought to myself "hmm perhaps an ..easy.. first foot into that water", after a bit of reading I decided to put this one off for a while and try a few more simpler things first :D
 
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