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Sep 02, 2018
Absolutely Beautiful Inlaid Violin Parts
First of all the violin parts are truly beautiful. The wood has excellent grain features and the inlay workmanship couldn't be better. The parts are very precise and will need minimal fitting to be a perfect match to a 4/4 violin. The fingerboard is slightly thick which is the way a luthier wants parts to come. You can always take off material, but it's impossible to add material back that isn't there.
This is the second time I have purchased this type of parts from this manufacturer. I will include some photos of the violin I made with there parts. I must tell you they are very nice people to work with. The parts arrived a day earlier than expected, which is almost unheard of for an offshore supplier to the USA.
If I were building violins on a production line, I would be looking at partnering with this supplier for my inlaid parts.
I highly recommend this supplier of inlaid musical instrument parts and will probably buy from them again if I am able to build more instruments (I'm old, 77 and it's getting harder and harder to do the building work.). Oh, they make inlaid parts for other instruments too.
I hope this review is helpful to my fellow violin builders.
Sep 02, 2018
Excellent Bow, Great Price
3 of 4 found this helpful I bought this bow to use with my latest violin build. It's an electric violin if that's important to you. The bow is an excellent bow at a great price. It looks good too. It's just what the manufacturer said it would be. It takes awhile to get it in the USA, but it comes well packaged and is well worth the wait.
The bow is made of carbon fiber and sports excellent craftsmanship. The Frog is beautiful and the fit is very precise (no looseness at all) with smooth adjustment and movement. The stick is black, extremely straight from side to side and has just the right amount of curve to work well.
The bow performs well for me where my old Brazilwood bow that cost almost twice as much didn't perform well for me. I am not a great violinist, but I build string instruments and know good craftsmanship when I see it. I would not be ashamed to take this bow anywhere and allow a great violinist to use it in a performance.
The price of this bow is great too. I don't believe you will find another bow of this quality anywhere for it's price. I really hope this review will help potential buyers know what to expect if they buy one of these bows.
The bottom line is if I build another violin and need a bow to go with it, I will be buying another of these bows and not just because of price either. I highly recommend this bow to others.
Jul 25, 2018
World Class Inlay Work
The inlay workmanship on this set is fantastic. The wood is a lighter shade of color rosewood than what we normally use in the USA, but with a little stain, it turns out beautiful. The fingerboard as it came was almost an exact fit to the sides of the neck that I had made. It was about 0.100" (2.5 mm) thicker than I like for weight purposes, but my jointer soon corrected that.
The pegs (They were included in my set.) were smaller diameter than what you would buy in the USA. I was just able to fit them into the smallest hole I could fit with my reamer. I would have liked a matching nut, but as luck would have it, I had a couple of small pieces of rosewood so I just made one to match the other pieces.
The bottom line is I would use this supplier again, if his price is right. The current price is more than double what I paid in 2014.
I have included pictures of the finished product using these parts. My set had a slightly different pattern to the inlay than the set shown currently.