My goodness Jon, you are flying through these videos. This cannot be the real time pace. I'd like to know how long it has taken you to actually build this fiddle. No words can express how grateful I am for you to create this tutorial series. No one has made this information as clear and available has you have. I sure hope these videos remain posted for years to come as I will be referring back to them often as I am inspired to try my hand at a fiddle build of my own. I wish I could start right away, but like you, I have a bunch of home reno projects to get through first.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Haha! Thankyou for the wonderful compliments. Yes-- this is real time. Actually, it takes quite a bit to plan each "lesson" and draw sketches and present a "formula" for each step. Everyone has been sick, I have been home watching over them, and back and forth to the shop. Stayed out till midnight a couple nights because I enjoy it so. The video project has helped me codify some of my own methods and I hope my tips, jigs, and homemade tools are helpful. I like doing things economically (Cheap) as often as possible. Reliance on power tools has taken over the guitar industry. I made sure I could build a violin without power first, then added in steps to speed the process. Thanks so much for encouraging me!
@shamrockwoods2992
5 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for this series. I am fascinated with instrument building, guitar, mandolin and violin. You have made the process more understandable so thankyou again from Michigan. 😁😁😁😁
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for saying thankyou! I really appreciate that. I have never made a mandolin...and am thinking about it. I hope you build something and share it!
@maxlever9196
5 жыл бұрын
Jon, I am recommending your videos to my boss and my peers in the Training Group, Curriculum Development Team, of our corporate operations maintenance department. This is how we need to produce our training videos. Entertaining, essential theory and practical example, and NOT boring. Great content and value. And I think I like the tone of that "old locust wood fiddle" best of all that you play. Thanks for all you do.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Gee, Max. Don't know what to say :) Thanks for the huge compliment. I try to be logical, explain some of the "why" and "how" and not stay on the same camera angle to avoid fatigue. Thanks so very much!
@lisacraig1894
10 ай бұрын
Love this work and your playing; this sounds like the life I dream of creating for my family!
@SeanPClark
3 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say your series inspired me to build my own and I’m extremely grateful. I refer to your videos before each step in the process and your detailed instruction is amazing. Just cut my f-holes last night!
@grandpasmountain
3 жыл бұрын
No way! That's awesome. Thanks for writing me! I'd love to see your fiddle!
@SeanPClark
3 жыл бұрын
You can check out the latest video on my channel. Finished the corpus this week! I’m literally just following along with your instructions and plugging away on nights and weekends when I can. Got my kids to do some chiseling and other tasks as well, so they signed the top plate also.
@grandpasmountain
3 жыл бұрын
@@SeanPClark can't wait to see it!
@bluehoo0
5 жыл бұрын
The mystery of violin tuning is dissolving before my very eyes thanks again Jon. The knowledge you’ve acquired through the meany fiddles you have made and are now sharing with is really very generous of you. So once more a very BIG thank you for that. 👍👍👍
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
You're quite welcome....there is still a lot more...and it gets quite complex. I have tested various theories (had to build a violin for each one) and what I've presented is fairly straightforward and repeatable. I'm so glad you have found it helpful!
@raornitram
4 жыл бұрын
Hello from Norway. Many thanks for some great videos. Very instructive and easy to understand ... Very good educational "performance". Maybe some of the best I've ever seen
@wa1ivd
5 жыл бұрын
Delighted you did this Jon. I have been swamped with information and opinions as I have worked towards making an instrument over a few years and this neatly connects the dots. The jigs and advice on affordable tools are priceless! That fiddle pillow is really clever -- it will adjust to any arching scheme. Thanks so much for putting the effort in to do this.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for all the kind words! I look forward to hearing about YOUR fiddle!
@gilbertwilliamson7782
5 жыл бұрын
Hello from the Shetland Islands again Jon, really enjoying this tutorial on tuning just brilliant and your fiddle sounds great.🎻🎻👍👍
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Hello!!! Wow-- so beautiful there! We have wonderful rolling green hills with sheep and cattle here-- I'd love to visit over there! My relatives come from Scotland through the Buchanan clan. My mom has all the details written down. Thank you for the message and compliment. So nice to hear from you! Maybe one day I can visit!
@georgefrench1907
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Jon. (That tune at the end was a perennial favorite in our Sunday school. Nice.)
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
It's a special song for me. Not just because if it's history, but because of it's impact on me.
@adamgc73
5 жыл бұрын
Wow great viewing yet again Jon...I always get excited when you have posted a new video...I love that little thumb plane it's very cute. Watching all your videos up until now makes me appreciate even more the work and time that goes into making one by hand. I am Truly blessed to have my own hand built violin and not some mass produced crap.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Adam! There's nothing like hand-made instruments. One thing I think about is the risk involved---there are many critical times when making a fiddle, when the slightest wrong move will ruin it. Maybe we should have a risk-rating for instruments!
@bethesdawoodworks2314
5 жыл бұрын
Your videos are great inspiration for me to continue with my first violin build.... I did build your bending iron and tried it on some scrap cherry wood...works great!!!!!
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!! Works for guitars, too. Instead of pipe, I used a scrap of aluminum sailboat mast from the boatyard--- wonderful teardrop shape.
@billstoner5559
5 жыл бұрын
Another great video in the series, Jon. Thanks so much for the patient detail of your instruction.
@danmcconaghy1525
4 жыл бұрын
the comment section of your latest video was turned off Jon. I do not know if you did this by mistake or if you are having problems. Good to see you again and great to see the progress on your house. you never stand still too long. I hope all is well with you and yours in this Covid19 time. best wishes from N. Ireland. Dan
@grandpasmountain
4 жыл бұрын
Hello, Dan!!! So nice to hear from you. Thanks, I didn't know that. Everything has changed on KZitem and I am figuring things out. I'll go look and see how to change that.
@grandpasmountain
4 жыл бұрын
Ok. If you say your video is safe for kids, comments get turned off. Didn't know that.
@RIBill
5 жыл бұрын
No idea what it sounds like in person, but the locust fiddle is my favorite sounding one through youtube on my phone.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Bill -- It is sounding better as time goes on. It was a but stiff and bright at first. I like it too.
@st.ceciliasconservatoryofmusic
5 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, Jon! I've always checked my modes by tapping, listening, twisting, and flexing, but you've really whetted my appetite to try the frequency generator and Chladni patterns.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
If you have no reference point.... other than a nice ring...you have little to work with. If you get the Mode 2 to be half the Mode 5, you get a wonderful ring to the plate. Nothing substitutes for good, careful workmanship. The Chladni pattern can at least reveal some places that need work.
@st.ceciliasconservatoryofmusic
5 жыл бұрын
@@grandpasmountain Yes, I tune each mode by ear. As you probably already know, you can hear the different modes by holding the plate at the different nodal points and tapping at the appropriate areas, like what you do by moving the foam blocks and speaker. What is s mystery to me is precisely how to get the nodal lines to move where you want them. I do it by feeling the torsional flex and finding the flex point in t he bass bar. Very tricky business! Thanks again for your generosity!
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
@@st.ceciliasconservatoryofmusic I'd love to see your method. I was taught that the relationship of the plates to each other was most important. We surmise that the great makers did as you and possibly used a tuning fork to set the Mode 5 and 2. Mode 1 seems to set itself with proper carving. Getting the right relationship can be tricky-- as research proved that if the tap tones were either too close or too far away would result in a mediocre to poor instrument. Your carving is most likely spot on-- and if you use the traditional materials, the various modes will fall where they are supposed to. I find the plate tuning most helpful when using odd woods-- and odd grain orientations. Cedar for example, benefits alot from following the correct mode 5 frequency. All the modes are a function of grain stiffness. Obviously the lower the frequency, the lower the stiffness or strength. YOU should make a video and share your method. Lots of fellows are longing to learn ways to improve.
@rickcraw100
5 жыл бұрын
Hey thanks for all the good info. Can't wait to see more.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Rick.
@luckybozu5276
4 жыл бұрын
Hey got to say you have been a real help with me starting my first violin build and a indispensable source of information and help. I was just wondering though at this stage with your top plate is it at the same thickness you left it in the previous video 3.25 at the top 3.7 in the middle and 3.5 in bottom ? Because it hit the frequency you were after straight away i'm guessing it stayed the same ? Having looked at thickness maps on making the violin and else where a lot of the seem to be in the 2. something range over the plate. Thanks
@wristmax
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely and totally awesome!!
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Wow. Thanks very much!
@roman14032
4 жыл бұрын
jon your fiddles will be worth a fortune in 300 years maybe not as fiddles but as youtube memorabilia people are going to be watching these vids for that long to come "wow, so thats what wood was like when we had trees"
@grandpasmountain
4 жыл бұрын
I don't think the USA will exist in 300 years, right now. Thanks a million for the kind words!!
@roman14032
4 жыл бұрын
@@grandpasmountain JON, the freest country in the history of the world isnt so easy to kill alot of nasty stuff has happened to us before, WAAY WAAY worse stuff
@buckfactor3952
5 жыл бұрын
Loving this series sir Thank You! Did you change the bass bar wood? early you showed what was a piece of spruce and then later it looked as though you were using pine just curious if it was the same piece.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thankyou! Haha! Good eye!! Yes, I had to change pieces of wood -- I found an internal split in the first piece as I started carving. I had already cut a couple other pieces for bass bars from the same block, so I just grabbed one of those. I wondered if anyone would catch on!!
@yairstern5369
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these videos. Could you tell me why not carve the bass bar when carving the top instead of gluing ?
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
That was done on cheap factory violins, and was tried early on in violin making. A separate bass bar has proven itself easier, to sound superior, and allow the tuning of the bare plate.
@bluehoo0
5 жыл бұрын
Jon have you watched Matthias Wandel ? Some of the gadgets he makes from timber are brilliant, I particularly like his device to rock his baby.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Yup! My wife calls him my favorite Canuck. I do like his projects.
@claymore609
4 жыл бұрын
19:00 I got distracted by the beetle.
@TitofBee
3 жыл бұрын
bro, you are agood teacher
@grandpasmountain
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@2old4u
5 жыл бұрын
Love this project.
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Papa!
@wristmax
4 жыл бұрын
18:44 Suddenly a wild bug attacks
@skypatrol716
4 жыл бұрын
Any reason other than ease of construction that the bass bar is not cut or carved out along with thicknessing the belly. Also, if you have the chance I'd like you to carve a radiating pattern of ripples emanating from the sound post location on the back plate. I'm just pulling your chain😂jon.
@grandpasmountain
4 жыл бұрын
Once upon a time, bass bars WERE integral with the belly plate and that changed due to a myriad of reasons. Carving a separate bass bar has many advantages and has become the standard. Yes, it is probably easier, as well!!
@anthonysimms6414
5 жыл бұрын
Never played the fiddle, but now I want to build one, go figure
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Well.....what are you waiting for?!?
@larrycounce4509
4 жыл бұрын
How do you remove the caulk from the plate?
@grandpasmountain
4 жыл бұрын
The CHALK just wipes off with a moist cloth. I read your question several times....wondering when I ever used CAULK! lol
@simonecamplani2430
5 жыл бұрын
any european followers know where to find the kind of pegboard wall Jon has? on EU amazon stores i can only find expensive car mecanich style peg boards but im looking for something simpler like his
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
Don't you have a home building supply there? I bought a 4x8 sheet for $16 at a little local place. Handy stuff!
@bluehoo0
5 жыл бұрын
Jon Mangum where are you in Europe ? I’m in England and there’s a company called Hobby Craft which sells pegboard
@grandpasmountain
5 жыл бұрын
@@bluehoo0 Simone is in Europe, not me :)
@bluehoo0
5 жыл бұрын
Jon Mangum I know your in America I thought Simon would see my reply here.
@simonecamplani2430
5 жыл бұрын
Italy, but even though i didn't find exactly the same stuff jon has, i thik i found a valuable product that will solve my problem. Thx alot anyway
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