{"id":4394,"date":"2024-03-15T22:58:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=4394"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T20:21:48","slug":"violin-kit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=4394","title":{"rendered":"violin kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Violin Kit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Started on March 13, 2024: completed on May 12, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of actually building a violin was something of a long term goal – much further down the road. I imagine that I would have needed to build a good number of guitars before my skills were honed enough to take on something like a violin build – from scratch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From what I see of the parts on a violin, there are a lot more finer details to carve out. This would probably be more of the violin head where it curls up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One step I was looking to take towards violins was doing an archtop guitar course. I am interested in building some archtop guitars and the way the two instruments would be connected is that there is carving involved – the top and back sides of both instruments. It is possible that the body construction of the two instruments would be similar to each other as opposed to a non archtop guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just from a bit of research I did before purchasing the violin kit, I knew that there wasn’t much of any bracing in the violin. It is possible that this is why violins tend to crack the way they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was some thoughts of trying to shape the kit violin similar to one of the Monkey logos. After doing a bit of staring at the two outlines, I scribbled some designs on how to try to make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The easiest would be to just stain an outline of the Monkey logo on the top plate of the violin. But, this is not really what I had in mind at all. I really want the violin itself to be shaped untraditionally and be more monkey-like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea would have been to hack the kit violin to make the monkey shape work but because of that, I would imagine the structural integrity would be compromised a lot since gluing parts together would be on arched areas as opposed to flat spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Monkey Violin would be made from scratch and possibly using the guitar building method I know first. This would allow me to see if how it would turn out physically and possibly even let me not have to order in new tonewoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another idea would be to just route the Monkey logo but it would have to be an electric violin since the shape of the instrument wouldn’t be a big factor in the sound it produces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that said, there will be most likely two monkey-shaped acoustic violins and one Monkey logo shaped electric violin in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This kit violin may not be assembled to keep for resource pieces. The progress on it is intentionally slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*update April 27, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After putting this on the back burner for a while, I decided to go back to it. I did consider to not put this together so I can have a violin I can look at for reference on the pieces. Running out of space is a good reason to put this together and get it out of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*update May 12, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kit violin is now completed. I tried to stain the violin in a way to try to get a mixture of colours but it didn’t work out as I had hoped. I put on a brown stain on the bottom and then tried to get a little bit of raspberry in there but the raspberry went on heavier than I was hoping for. I do feel the back and ribs turned out okay in the end. I tried some metallic silver over the raspberry on the top plate: it also went on heavier than I wanted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good thing about having a violin like this is that I get to practice carving\/shaping bridges. I feel the bridge turned out well but looks like it is on the short side. I wouldn’t know for sure though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After getting the D’Addario Prelude strings on, I tuned and tested the violin. It actually sounds good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I can say that I am pleased with the build. Maybe I need to purchase some oil varnish and try another kit violin in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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