I'll start out by showing some tools I use.  There is allot more than I show here.

   Here is a set of templates I use sometimes.

This is my home made thickness gage.              Hot iron bender.                                            External type glue jig.

 

Just some of the smaller tools.                           These are some of the parts I generally

    Here is the top and bottom of                         buy and keep on hand.  There are some

the project I'm going to show.                             in there that I've made.

 

Here I'm heating a side piece in a boil tank to get it             Here I'm bending a side piece on a bending iron.

ready to bend.

              

 

Here I'm glueing the side pieces together in a jig I

made.  Notice the blocks glued in the joints.  The

bottom piece isn't there yet.

This is the start I have so far.   This will be a little different violin.  The woods will not be normal woods used in violins.

The sides are sycamore,  the front and back are western red cedar, the neck is honey locust.  I've started carving the top. The top and back are two pieces glued together, vertical grain.