Ideas

Here are some ideas on projects involving woodworking and lutherie:

Bridge lifter (Réné Morel style)

Bridge holder/clamp/cradle

Bridge angle measuring jig (discussion at Maestronet)

(same could be achieved using this)

Violin cradle or just a holder

Another project of cradle

Stradivari style clamp ribs

Graduation punch (for checking parts where depths – in strips or other – are not right)

Sacconi compass (this one by Davide Sora)

Fingerboard jig

Neck holder jig

Violin caliper (user Janito at Maestronet)

Fingerboard scraper holder

Obs.: let me just make a brief comment on having a fingerboard scraper holder: over time, you’ll burnish this, so it’ll invariably change its shape, skewing the measurements of the fingerboard. So, technically speaking, I’m pro to the idea of having a fingerboard template instead of a fingerboard scraper.

Bassbar clamp jig