THE PLAN:
I ordered a regular violin oil varnishing kit (red-brown) from International Violin Company (a Joha kit from Hammerl), of which I've seen good reviews. While I really love how my dyeing/French-polishing experiment came out on my third violin and my teeny-tiny violin, I thought I'd give traditional oil varnishing another try, just to see if I like it and if I can do better at it than I did way back in 2001, when I built my very first violin. (At that time, I really had no idea what I was doing!)
I ordered, off Amazon, another cheap ($90) Chinese violin-in-the-white, with a flamed maple back (because I really do want to see how the oil varnish will bring out the flame). (This violin kit also has all the fixings --- nice boxwood tailpiece, chin rest, and pegs, which is a plus.)
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April 23rd, 2020:
I think I'll begin today by thoroughly sanding this violin.
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