This month has been pretty hectic and exciting! My wife and I are celebrating the new addition of our baby boy Lorenzo to our family. Also, my violin bow #4 is officially for sale at Psarianos Violins, Ltd. in Troy, Michigan. I've had a lot of positive feedback from local musicians, professional and non-professionals and …
Violin no. 27 by Jonathon Price
My colleague Jon Price finished this magnificent violin in April. It is modeled after the "Plowden", Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesu', 1735. The varnish and shading is Stradivari inspired hence the red and gold colors. Notable, this violin has a gorgeous one piece slab cut back made from American maple. As always with Jon's violins, the top …
Violin Bow no. 4
This 4th violin bow was completed in March. The stick is octagonal pernambuco with ebony and silver mounts, weighing in at 60.1 grams. The head and frog modeling are Sartory, though I deviated from the traditional parisian eye/solid button combination on this frog and went with a large pearl eye. There are many examples of …
How tight to tighten a bow and its effect on tone production.
How tight do I tighten my bow? Believe it or not, I get asked this question a lot. I've also heard a lot of interesting things such as "enough to fit a pencil through". Now this statement is okay for a direct beginner as a rough guide, but I feel another better general rule should …
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Rough’n it
Violin bow no. 4 in progress. Using various planes, we bring the stick down to about 1.5 mm to 2 mm above dimension. The use of various planes are nice in that different parts of the stick work differently in different directions of planing. I like to use the Stanley 9 1/2 to take off most …
Violin Bow No. 3
Round vs. Octagonal
I'm entering the final stages of bow no. 3, I have the graduations dialed in nicely and have to make a decision as to keep it octagonal or round it out. The length of the violin bow can take on many shapes: Round/Oval, Octagonal, Half-Round/Half-Octagonal, Triangular-ish. The two most popular being round and octagonal. At the …
Happy New Year!
The launch of this page is one of my New Year's resolutions. For those that are interested I will be putting up photos of restorations, making, and of completed bows. Sometime last year I did couple of head splines here are some photos: The heads are glued together, sawn out, and splines fit and …
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