New Book! First of many to come, I hope! As some of you are aware, I have posted lots of articles on violin making and repair, over the years, some in book form, but in .pdf format, so, those who were interested could download them, but they were really only readable on a full compluter…the …
Round-Topped Wooden Chest Here’s a short article; an example of the sort of videos I want to produce: The idea will be to actually produce a round-topped wooden chest in a YouTube video, as described below, and explaining the math, step by step. I have built them in the past, but it never occurred to …
Why “The Layman’s Institute?” I chose the name of the website because of an unpleasant situation that occurred many years ago: an older man was condemning the work of a younger man simply because the younger man had not attended the “right school.” No attention was given to the actual quality of his work, nor …
