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The Onion Cellar: June 2008
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Things I may or may not have learned from school. An Examination of the Closed/Oscillatory Models of the Universe and Their Implications. 8220;Can we actually know the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around Chinatown.” – Woody Allen. 8220;Nothing can be created from nothing.” - Lucretius. And what came before our natal “Big Bang”, if anything? For several days the student toyed with this idea, writing down questions to look up answers to, such as What evidenc...
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Kology Violins: The Day of Reckoning
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The shop's Blog, with updates news and musings for customers, friends, and family. The Day of Reckoning. It's time for me to rebuild my violin. In keeping up with demand it has been put off to many times. Amongst it's many problems, that have been worsened by neglect, I need to remove the neck. Tricky business at best. The Projection is wrong due to the upper block being loose from the table. That pressure started a crack on the center seam that I need to head off before it gets worse. My Philosophy is t...
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Kology Violins: Fingerprint Varnish.
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The shop's Blog, with updates news and musings for customers, friends, and family. This fiddle has a cool fingerprinted varnish. The gradation in the finish is done by layering varnish thickly using your fingers and supplementing with brushing on and polishing off further layers. the upper bout of the back looks like leopard spots. People do some strange things. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Please see my "Philosophy on fiddles" section for my thoughts on appraisals. My Philosophy on Fiddles. Fix i...
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Kology Violins: Smoke Damage
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The shop's Blog, with updates news and musings for customers, friends, and family. Below is one of the corners as I found it. The gray is all soot and has now been removed. The varnish is actually closer to a honey color. I will be posting after pictures as soon as the entire instrument is cleaned. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Please see my "Philosophy on fiddles" section for my thoughts on appraisals. My Philosophy on Fiddles. Fix it but the repair would cost more than the fiddle is worth." I...
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Kology Violins: New Location!!
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The shop's Blog, with updates news and musings for customers, friends, and family. The green door at the end of the hall. Yesterday I moved into my new shop. Located in Beverly Massachusetts at the Porter Mill studio building, check them out at http:/ studiosatportermill.blogspot.com/ here are some pictures from my shop the first day. Shop hours will be posted soon. If anyone wants. To visit or set up an appointment drop me a line at akology@gmail.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fix it but the r...
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Kology Violins: Pegs, Alternatives and weights.
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The shop's Blog, with updates news and musings for customers, friends, and family. Pegs, Alternatives and weights. I think every new player, and some who have been playing for years, look at their pegs and think; "What a pain. Can't I just slap on some guitar style tuning machines? Well, yes you can. Double bass style tuning machines. OK, so they look bad ass, and they may or may not be easier to use than regular friction pegs. The major draw backs are as follows. Added weight, at 74 grams you. Banjo/Uke...
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Kology Violins: April 2012
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The shop's Blog, with updates news and musings for customers, friends, and family. This fiddle had an old set of Roth machine pegs installed. It was reamed out almost to the hilt of my reamer, around 9mm. The holes were also somewhat crooked. After glue sizing and scoring the bushings/holes, I let it set over night. I'll start carving them out and flushing them to the surface tomorrow. Links to this post. And the dry fitted edge. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Repairs and restorations ar...
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The Onion Cellar: November 2007
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Thursday, November 22, 2007. Accidental mysteries - a found photo show that was at the Peabody Essex Museum a while ago, the website is www.accidentalmysteries.com. John taylor "folk art ships" - www.folkartships.com. Book I'm reading. It's short, and the writing is very spare, and it's murakami. Blog mhm. soon I will put work up. For now:. An Apology by William Carlos Williams. This is just to say. I have eaten the plums. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Friends and stuff to look at. View my complete profile.
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The Onion Cellar: December 2008
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Monday, December 8, 2008. Some simple studies in acrylic on wood for the small works show. Titles from top to bottom: Twin Silo Indiana, House on Red Square Hill, Concussion Drive, Beverly Pharmz, and AV Electric. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Friends and stuff to look at. I have 10 fingers and 10 toes. View my complete profile.
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The Onion Cellar: July 2009
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Thursday, July 16, 2009. About a month and a half ago I finally stopped doing the homeless scavenger dance and got a real place in Northampton, MA. I'm seriously enjoying the woodsiness, after living on the coast for so long. I missed the trees and the dirt, oh the DIRT -not sand! I also recently got a documentary out of the library called "Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision" about the naturalist Ernst Haeckel, and though the movie was just okay, I'm completely addicted to Mr. Haeckel's images (mos...
