{"id":4642,"date":"2024-04-22T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=4642"},"modified":"2024-06-03T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:09:49","slug":"toscani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=4642","title":{"rendered":"Toscani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Toscani Violin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked up this violin on April 21, 2024 for really cheap. Regardless of how bad the body could have been without seeing it, it was still worth while unless it had a giant hole in it or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon first look, I would guess that the violin was spray finished  &#8211; it has a super glossy look to it like guitars. There was a lot of what appears to be cracking on the glossy finish on the top plate and back as well as a possible crack along one of the F holes to the lower rib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was actually excited to see a crack as it would give me reason to take the top plate off to try to repair the crack. I managed to get my inspection mirror in there enough to see that the crack wasn&#8217;t through the wood as I was expecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the inspection, I did a wet sand with 1000 grit sandpaper to try to get off a few questionable &#8220;things&#8221; on the top plate and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*update May 13, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did attempt to French polish the top plate and back but it didn&#8217;t seem to take the shellac well or at all. I eventually wet sanded it again and buffed the body. It isn&#8217;t spectacular but is still better than what it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was hard to get the soundpost through the F holes: I am not sure if something is going on with the top plate. Even the specialty tools to retrieve and install the soundpost were a bad fit into the F holes. It took some patience and use of tools in each hand to juggle the soundpost to position but I managed to get it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am quite happy with how the bridge turned out. I did make one the previous day for the kit violin and it is good to get some experience with carving and shaping the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*update June 3, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I went to take the violin out of the case to loosen the strings for travel, I realized that the neck had separated. The fingerboard was right against the top plate. It will have to be addressed after I come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-1024x585.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4795\" style=\"width:824px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-scaled-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-1536x877.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Toscani1-2048x1170.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toscani Violin I picked up this violin on April 21, 2024 for really cheap. Regardless of how bad the body could have been without seeing it, it was still worth while unless it had a giant hole in it or something. Upon first look, I would guess that the violin was spray finished &#8211; it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}