Monthly Archives: November 2024

This violin still had on its original bridge from the 1980s, which had definitely come to the end of its useful life. If the process of preparing to fit a new bridge, I observed that the elevation of the violin had dropped a bit, meaning that I would have had to fit an unusually low bridge in order to achieve a good string height. However there were also some lumps and bumps in the fingerboard, so I realised that I would be able to correct the elevation with a slightly angled fingerboard reshoot before going on to fit the new bridge at the standard dimensions.

This violin came in primary for a couple of cracks on the top to be repaired, however the owner had also observed that the E string was a bit bright so I ended up fitting a new soundpost as well as trying a different brand of E string. The bridge also benefited from a little adjustment.

This cello came in for some general improvements. It’s not a very expensive and fancy instrument, but nontheless I believe most instruments can be improved at least somewhat from factory setup. This cello got some bridge adjustments and a new soundpost as well as a fresh set of good quality strings and some optimisation of the peg fit.

This violin needed a new bridge as the old one had snapped.

This violin had had been restored at some point but all of the angles were slightly askew, leading to the neck pointing sideways from the centre line and the fingerboard pointing away from the bridge. I’d done some conservative corrections on it before, but the owner decided he wanted to try get the neck skew corrected as well. An interesting challenge to do without disturbing the old repairs around that area.

This cello came in because the bridge had become very warped over time. I fitted a new bridge and well as adjusting the soundpost and the pegs.