There's always and abundance of everything when making a cello. In this case lots of chips. There's also an abundance of physical effort that goes into removing the wood from these massive boards. As it turns out, I may not use the top you see on the bench on the current cello in progress. The wood for the back of the cello has turned out to be quite dense, so I may be pairing it with a denser spruce top. However, this top is veryimpressive from a tonal perspective and I may decide to go with it after all. Even though I don't plan to do any varnishing until late spring, I'm thinking about colours now. It's fun to experiment and compare the results of different combinations of paints, pigments and mediums. I wanted to try blending coccineal (cactus bug secretion) and pthalo blue with my characteristic red/brown colours. The results were not what I expected, but they never are. I made a madder lake (from madder root) last month and was anxious to compare it to the commercial ones I had in stock. It's more orange than the others but I think it will be quite attractive on a violin. However, curiosity got the better of me and I've ordered madder root from a source in India. I want to see if the madder lake that I make from this root will produce a different result and whether the result will be acceptable.
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