Violoncello...ready for varnish

plaster casts of cello scrolls

Waldorf School woodworking shop

El Marko's Violinmaker's workshop

self portrait

Bashia

Tuxedo - checking out the big dogs that live next door to his new home.

Ruggeri 'cello scroll

Bein & Fushi's - Chicago, Illinois

Art Institute of Chicago

working on 'cello #2 back...

Scraping the top for 'cello #2

Taylor, your the dog, man!

cutting and filing the inside of the back to receive the button

cutting and filing the wedged button

cutting edge back to the purfling

button graft - WOOPS!

"God gave man an opposible thumb and violin buttons, Please leave them intact!"

Jimmy's 1704 varnish

Sara

Piper and Tennesse - teaching a dog new tricks!

Steve - setting a new bridge on a violin

Kay - cutting the purfling channel

Kay

Will - setting a bassbar

Steve and Will

El Marko

Steve Lohmann - demonstrating c bout rib being tied to the blocks

Steve Lohmann - demonstrating c bout rib being tied to the mold.

Sara

Jim and Sara

El Marko's Violin Workshop & Monsoon Survival Camp 2008

http://www.windstoneeditions.com/alberti-design/endpins.html

"Made of precision carbon fiber tubing and aircraft aluminum, the Alberti Endpin features a single piece clamping body and double tip with hardened, angled spike and integral rubber bumper. The removeable, replaceable spike is double ended/pointed and the endpin body fits to the instrument with a tapered sleeve that simplifies installation."

This is a great endpin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary

Thom's viola - 2 piece top joined .

rough arching with purfling groove cut in - carving began on the inside of the back, using silver chain as a visual aid in carving the catenary arching.

http://www.tomcroenviolins.com/

Timothy Scott McCluskey

Berkeley, California

Faciebat Anno 2007

glueing the back to the rib garland

carving the 'cello back and scroll

carving the 'cello back

mona lisa

making William Fulton's recipe for oil resin varnish.

Group Photo, Cremona Conference 2005, National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD

Our home, not our Mercedes-Benz.

my shop. 

Our kitchen talble with tulips 

Theodore Turquet De Mayerne, 1573-1655

"Lost Secrets of Flemish Painting", by Donald Fels and Paintings by Joseph H. Sulkowski. Includes the first complete English translation of the De Mayerne Manuscript, B.M. Sloane 2052. Hardback 386 pages

Stradivari Crest 

Blondie and Tuxedo. 

inside of my shop in the late afternoon. 

Claude Monet - haystacks  

Rembrant 

Dutch - 17th Century 

bust 

the death of Christ. 

bust 

frieze 

marble bust 

bad closeup 

bust 

Bowl 

teapot 

vase 

dragon on bowl 

bowl 

Chinese horse.

Chinese porcelin figures 

1704 Repair Varnish.

45 g Seedlac
7.5 grams gum elemi.
200 ml Alcohol 9 ml.
Lavender Oil of Spike.

dissolve ingredients ,Shake it everyday until the seedlac is dissolved, for about 2-3 week, heat in a double boiler "for seven minutes", cool, and then repeat heating process. Filter through cheesecloth WHILE STILL WARM you can do this a couple of time until no particles remain. Cool and use thin with alcohol.