Testore 2023 — Yam Uri Raz

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Viola

Made in Hawaiʻi 2023
Model Testore 1733
40 cm/15.75”

Sold
CA, USA

Viola Top

Viola Bass

Viola Treble

The making of a Testore 1733 model viola

working on the top finger plane

Working with the gauge on the back

Choosing the wood for the Testore viola

Testore model and mold

Shaping the blocks before glueing the c bouts

Glueing the upper and lower bout

Cleaning the ribs

Center joint on the ribs

Hot bending iron, bending the linings

Linings almost ready to be glued

Glueing the linings

Planing the back flat

After a ruff cut, in the vice before picture

Gauging the back, using the light

Shaping the back with a fingerplane

Chisel the contour flat

Gauging the remains

Gauging the fluting

Gauging the remains

Gauging the inside

Finishing the measurements with the finger plane

Split wood spruce top - book-matched and planned

Gauging the shape of the arcing - top

shaping the top using a finger plane

Scraping the top, finishing

Design of the f holes

Gauging the fluting

lowering the fluting channel

Shaping with a finger plane the f resonant area for maximum resonance

Gauging the inside of the top

Finger planing the top

Back and top side by side

Cutting of the f holes

One down, one to go

Shaping the f holes with knives

Finishing the measurements on the top

Scraping the top to final measurements

Bass bar from the remaining of the original top

Planing the bass bar to size

Bass bar fitted with pressure

Bass bar glued in with minimum pressure with many clamps

Bass bar shaped

Cutting the groves for the neck

Getting the mold out

Shaping the linings with a knife

Glueing the back to the ribs

Back glued and blocks shaped

Purfling channel cut and deepened with a handmade chisel

Purfling before inlaying it inside

Neck planned flat and perpendicular

Scroll designed

Scroll design 3D

Gauging the shape of the scroll

Depth of the pegbox

Leaving gauge marks on scroll

Finishing the fluting on the scroll with a gauge

Carving the purfling

Glueing the neck-set

Tanning the top with UV light

Tanning the back with UV light

Tanning the scroll with UV light

Tanning the scroll with UV light

Making of the Testore viola

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United States

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