Beautiful Kimon As usual very interesting video. Waiting for the next conclusion video about this varnishing.

@ranjeetbanerjee3561

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Kimon If possible please see my msg on messanger. Awaiting for your veluable comments.

thanks for teaching us so kindly, love all your videos, we learned so much, great content.

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words!

Excellent video! Thanks Kimon!

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ben!

Great video !!!! Thank You so much for all that you do !!!!

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Russ!

Cool! So satisfying watching and good for the state of mind also. Merry Christmas and on to pt. 2.

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear! The same to you!

I've been looking forward to this video :-D Old wood seems to me such an interesting but weird system, and I must say so far I like where it's going. I agree that on the video it looks a little more brown than I would make it myself, but it looks like you can actually get quite a bit of colour with very little thickness? That's something I've had trouble with using Joha Can't wait to see your antiquing! I'm currently varnishing my violins and will be antiquing as well, so it'll be fun to see if I can pick up a few tricks of yours :-)

Very Interesting Thank You

Is this violin that you built, or is this one that you bought in the white? Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Great video!

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

very very useful. Thank you very much

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear!

Nice instructive video. Seems to me that varnishing with your bare hands also gives you a better feeling where the varnish is applied, compared to a brush. Is that your experience too? Will you compare this varnish with e.g. the Hammerl varnish in the next video?

A very good book on violin varnish is the Koen Padding book from the Strad shop.

Great video. Hug from Brazil

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Gratings from Holland!

thank you for your video, very insightful... would love to see how to antique a violin and the process necessary to make it look years old

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm going to start on the second part this week.

Gratitud!

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Merci!

Como funciona esse tipo de vernis poderia explicar parabéns pelo bom trabalho

Hello Maestro, what type of brush do you use and do you advise me to buy it? Thank you for this wonderful video.

Dear Maestro-Kimon another great video very informative. I am touching up a Storioni copy that was in the family and was looking very poorly so I bought some Old Wood varnish and started to clean and touch up the violin. Everything went well except for one spot which keeps drying with orange peel. I have done nothing different compared to the rest of the violin which looks great. I have sanded with up to 3000 grit paper but this one spot keeps drying with orange peel. Do you have any advice?

Wonderful and interesting video, Maestro! When I saw the first coloured layer go on, I thought it was quite brown, as I know you tend to like reddish tones for your instruments. The finish, to my eye on the screen, looks a bit smoother when applied by hand compared to brush. I think the heat of your hand helps to smooth the application. There's something a bit fun and also quite beautiful and intimate about the physicality of the process, not just with tools, but also by touch. It's something that drew me to play the violin when I was young. I look forward to hearing your final thoughts on this product kit and how it will look. Did your fingertips get stained very much by this application?

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Meghann! Thank you for your kind words! I haden't thought about the fact that the varnish gets slightly warmed up but my hands. I think that the pressure applied also helps to smoothen it up more and get it spread more evenly than with a brush. I have to say that the hole process of making an instrument is pretty intimate. Every piece of wood passes intensive though my hands, I have seen an feeled everything. I clean my fingers with alcohol when ready and wash them with soap. Almost everything gets away fortunately! Have a good one!

@LadyTigerLily

2 жыл бұрын

@@maestrokimon Very true! The playing of violins, violas, cellos, viols, etc. is likewise very intimate, especially with cello and perhaps harp as well, in that the body is wrapped around the instrument and the sound resonating can be felt so close. It's one of the reasons I had thought to learn to be a luthier before the pandemic and a big reason why I fell in love with playing the violin. Music is a precious thing, especially to experience it in such ways. Take care!

Belo trabalho.

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Gracias!

Have you used the Refractive ground from the company? If so what are your thoughts?

kemanı kurutma odasında ne kadar süre bekletiyorsunuz. 😇

Hi maestro, I am making a violin with very dark cedar and very white spruce. Any advice as to how to varnish the violin to make the two colours nearly the same?

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

You could apply an couple of extra colored layers to the top.

hello Maestro, thanks for this great video, i have a question about the Gelatin, jow you solv it a water? mean recept, procent or gram you use, thanks for answer.

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Aras. 100gr gelatin to 100ml water.

@arashamed

2 жыл бұрын

@@maestrokimon Thanks Maestro

@arashamed

2 жыл бұрын

@@maestrokimon hello Maestro, i think it will be 10gr gelatin to 100ml water, 100gr gelatin is to much.

@maestrokimon

2 жыл бұрын

@@arashamed I expect that this solution will not seal the wood properly.