Hope you enjoy this one. Please watch in 4K for best quality!

The shot is done well and the narration is fine. I don’t know why people criticize so much. Keep up the good work. I enjoy the video.

Unfortunately, not all OLD instruments are GREAT instruments. . .but, I loved the video. Thanks

My grandfather used to repair and restore violins as a hobby. In retrospect, I'm very sad I wasn't more insistent when he was reluctant to teach me. He would have loved this video.

The cat was my favorite part 🐈🤩

correction at 3:10. it's not wood based glue. it's hide glue. Hide glue is made from boiling raw hide for a long time at a low temperature, making the hide dissolve in to the water. once it starts to drie it becomes sticky, and onche drie, it becomes hard. People wo build instruments, often swere by that hide glue is the best glue for atleast two reasons. First it's easy to remove if you need to repair the instrument. All you need is a bit of moisture and heat, and it will come apart, compared to other glues where you often deed to quite literarly break apart the item by force. The other reason, is that they claim hide based glues give the instrument a better and ritcher/fuller sound when you play them, compared to most other kinds of glue.

My great Grandfather made violins here in Michigan. i never met him as he was passed before I was born. This was enjoyable in that it showed me some of what he did. He also made gunstocks and was a barber

Fascinating. Why was such a large block carefully glued in place, just for almost all of it to be planed away? Why did it need to be so big to start with - why not at least half as deep? Excellent and very well-judged, minimal narration plus excellent recordings of the tools being used. 10/10

Nicely done Masters of the Craft! Great to see that you had a professional violin restorer doing the restoration the way it should be done.

Excellent! Thank you for letting the viewers hear the wonderful sounds of chisels, planes, rasps, scrapers, and files on maple, spruce, and ebony. A very fine video in every respect.

Had a Violin student in Sun Valley that had inherited a 1793 English fiddle. It was old, set up for fiddling and I re-bridged it and planed the well worn fingerboard, it played like a Strad! She was in 2nd or 3rd grade and it of course was too big but I told her she was just the right person and last I heard she went to Boise State on Full Scholarship and plays that fiddle from Olde London Towne I bet she is awesome

Indeed 37 minutes worth watching, this luthier was a joy to watch his craft and to see and hear the final act of restoration. 🎻👍(Would love to watch him make a violin from scratch)👀

Woooow, Worldclass!!! Really, very good job!!! 12 point's from Germany 👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪💪💪👍👍

Treball de inmensa capacitat i delicada sensibilitat, els bons lutiers retornen a la vida aquests instrumens dels angels.

I marvel at the consistency which you put your hands and fingers in career ending harms way of razor sharp tools under pressure.

Love the projects done, can’t stand the narration.

Violins and cats. Heck yeah brother! 23:45

Excellent repair/restoration work and very good video. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing this, I enjoy watching a master of any craft especially one I will never have a chance to even try much less master like you have. Most music is just noise to me but a violin to me is most special. I am tone deaf for the most part but something about violin music I can hear and enjoy.

Beautiful workmanship and beautiful results !!!

Beautiful restoration

Excellent woodworking skills and beautiful old instrument!

Che arte meravigliosa.. sei un vero artista, al pari di chi suonerà questa meraviglia ❤

Fantastic restoration, well done

This is a classic video - and as a fiddle player, it had a great effect on my state of mind!

Excellent work by both the craftsman repairing/restoring the instrument and the other craftsman who videoed him doing it. It is good that these skills are recorded for posterity. The repair of the soundboard was fascinating, something I never would have thought of.

Strangely enough, I had a visceral reaction seeing you cut the lines for the strings. It took me back many years ago when I played my cello. I loved seeing your work table and how even the grooves in its edge fit your fingers. Lovely work 😊

Qué bello trabajo se nota que le pone mucho amor a la reparación.

Nice restoration, player & Irish gig... 🎻☘💚😘🥰

Nicely done, enjoyed your work...

This person has some wicked great restoration skills. Not to mention musical talent. 👍👍

Chapeau! Brilliant!!👍👍👍

Wow, this restoration was a lot better then the other one. Great work!!!

Thank you. Wonderfull.

Dear AceMannow, Im going to guess that it was a German violin. I may be entirely wrong. Many German violins were manufactured in 1850. I know it was dated 1840. Black forest or Marneukichen or some other bavarian region I would guess. Of course im only speculating it might have been French or Italian or even Irish. Mine was a Sears copy of a Stradivarius of Cremona 1720. Its actual manufacture date was approx 1850 in west germany. Those old violins are wonderful but the glue dries out and they crack at the bouts. They also split at the f holes. That is why you must humidify a violin lest it crack.

Beautiful work in the traditional manner that so appeals to me. I've often brought and old wooden item back to life, but to do so, with a real instrument like this, with an untold history behind it, must be a maginal thing.

Bel ouvrage! Chapeau, l'artiste!

Nice job! I like it

great job!

I just realized to restore a violin you would have to be able to make one. A true master. But the clock would have to go

Such talent and skill. Nice work dude 😄😄

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH

I love the kitty!!!

"And now, the moment we ve been all waiting for"... Break that violin again.

I would like to know why? this restoration. A lot of time spend - was this a special violin ? or just because it can be done? Thank you -I loved it-Greetings from Australia

That was magical. Thsnks

well done!!!!

Beautiful job done.

Very nice work 👌

Браво мастер, с удовольствием посмотрел как кропотливо мастер возвращает побитую жизнью скрипку в мир музыки. После реставрации она издаёт чудесные звуки.

Absolutely amazing 👏👏👏👏👏🇬🇧

Amazing restoration work!!!😮 I'm so impressed. What is the song that play the girl in the final moment of the video?🎉🎉

curious why he makes his patches so big and then has to trim so much after. Why not cut them thinner on the ban saw to begin with?

Watching paint dry! Finally the big moment! Paint for the ear! Interesting to see the Luthier and tools used, but my goodness I really filled sucked in, oh well 😔 yawn yawn yawn!

Any idea who the manufacturer was or any other details of where it's been for the last 180 years?

merci

❤ì really enjoyed this artisan at work. Is there a reason the little bridge was left a light natural colour? I to would love to know the instruments history. It looked so beautiful at the end and sounded good.

What was that white powder you rubbed into the bridge? What does it do? Excuse my ignorance, my focus lies with fretted instruments.

Lovely to see this old instrument so carefully restored. The playing of it afterwards did leave a little to be desired and it also deserved better strings than fairly cheap Pirastro Tonica's. But a great video which in itself is a heck of a lot of work so many thanks.

It is an old violin, well restored. But is it a good instrument? Was it worth the effort?

Все....Я ,понял 😮 надо делать 🎻 скрипки...И Ты будеш , знаменитый..😊🎉😊🎉

Хорошо скрипка звучит😊

Great job, but what makes you say this violin is from the 1840s, and not from the 1900s or 1940s ? I'd like to know...

Wonderful content, but the dim, low-contrast video really does it a disservice

Im so early i just opened youtube time to watch this

I suppose it's a case of knowing what to restore and what is better to leave with such a restoration. I'm good at working with wood, I've done a few furniture and E-guitar restorations, but I doubt I'd have the courage to restore a violin, at least not one of this age. It'd probably end up spoilt, looking fantastic but sounding like a frog. Nice to see this really old instrument given a new life for another 184 years.

What a wounderful restoration. Please remove the title from the left side if screen, too distractiing.

3:55 Cat

Geared Pegs would keep it in better shape & eliminate the need for fine tuners on the tailpiece

3:55 Good kitty.

Great work. Did anyone count how many times he blows away the shavings?

11:46 - the planing of the bottom of the new foot of the neck looks *so* haphazard.... it scares me. I know that *that* is the correct way to perform that repair though. I repair student violins ONLY, on a pretty regular basis, and I have some different methods to those seen in this video... and occasionally I'll help with repairing a very nice violin, but only if I feel comfortable. I've made 5 instruments only (over the last 12 years) in my life and ever since my teacher has passed away - I don't have the heart to continue making or at least start a new one. Well, I have ONE viola that's about 75% of the way to being finished, and I know I can complete it :)

looks good, I would have re-bushed the peg holes however, nothing really left of them.

Ahhh I finally find this channel again! I was looking for the restoration channel that did firearms and even some animals “restorations” (lol). Did the style and name of the channel change?

03:10 What is 'wood-based glue'? I have never heard of it. Usually, animal-based glues are used in this kind of woodcraft.

Masters Of Craft, could you explain to me why you clean and polish your violin after installing strings? Is this more comfortable?

Where are you guys located? My grandfather had a violin that is in need of restoration and hasn't been played in over 70 years... It was made in Germany and is a copy of a Stradvarius....my grandfather had some work done to it many years ago and the man gave my grandfather his business card.. It was long ago and his phone number only had 3 digits.. i was thinking the business card might be worth almost as much as the violin...Very nice video... thx for sharing...

I'm not much of a violinist, but it sounds great in combination with conventional and electronic instruments.

Интересно в те времена когда делали эту скрипку наждачная бумага существовала в природе

sera que los tres oles de Cavani fueron una excepción?

i would like to know how many man hours it took to restore the violin. My guess is around 35 to 40 man hours. At $100 an hour that is $3,500 to $4,000 labor. Was it worth it? Only the tone knows.

Wouldn't it be wonderful for a professional musician to play it to hear it sing?

Was the neck grafted on to the head?

How many hours of work goes into this restoration?

I wonder why the crown? The only time I had to fit one was when a button had snapped off at the purfling, and it was necessary to cut away half of its thickness and fit a slip of maple to bridge the break. The repair would have been visible, and a crown hid it. I can't see a case for removing part of an intact button. In fact I can't see a case for removing ANY intact part of an instrument. Surely not best practice.

Great work. The contrast is too low on the video though.

It’s like watching a video through hazy glasses

Fascinating video, but from a filming perspective, it looks like it was filmed in LOG and not graded - that's why the colours look washed out.

Rabbit or hyde glue.is acceptable as it is disolvable with steam. Wood glue is entirely inappropriate as it will splinter when you need to dismantle it again. Wood glue is all right for a one shot reasembly but if it ever needs to have the plates removed it will take some of the other wood with it. The glue i saw being applyed looked like vegetable glue. Or hyde glue. Maybe the narrator only missquoted the glue type.

Nothing like hot hide glue.

👏👏👏👏👍💯

what kind of glue did you used pls?

Ahh, working on a violin with the scent of a cat box in the air.

@1:15, what is that instrument, that measures thickness, called? Thanks

That certainly sounds like 1850.

🎼🎵🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺🎻🎻🎻🎻

Robot voice.

Based on how the violinist is holding the fiddle with her chin, she’d likely benefit from a chin rest centered over the tail piece. I bet she’d like it a lot better.

This guy obviously has lots of skill and experience, but when he started filing the original neck profile, I got really confused. There's something here I'm not understanding

Did I miss him making a new neck?