Violin Maker -- serving High Point, Greensboro, Winston-Salem
2022 "geo. kloz" march 2022
2021 17" Viola "bronze medalist"
Awarded Bronze for Tone
by Southern Violin Association makers' competition Atlanta, GA 2021
Neck length 120mm
Stop length 220mm
Vibrating String length 365
After length 87mm
Romanian maple back and sides
Fine grain Romanian Spruce top
Old World Varnish (Spain)
Boxwood fittings
Dominant Strings
An interesting scroll
Finest ebony fingerboard
2020 Violin
Fill size violin, Romanian Spruce top
Romanian maple back and sides
Awarded Certificate of Merit for Tone 2021 Southern Violin Association makers' competition
Boxwood fittings
Eva Parrazi Gold strings
Old World Varnish system (Spain)
2019
Strad based on Messiah
Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019
Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019
An oil varnish applied by fingertips in a rich red-brown. This is my finest instrument made to date. It projects well and has a very clear and focused tone. Even across the strings. This is ready for an advancing to professional level player that doesn't want to spend $20,000 and up for an Italian of equal quality.
It is fitted with Eva Parazzi Gold strings and fine tune pegs (no necessity of fine tuners)
Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019
Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019
Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019
This violin was placed in a Dallas violin shop about 2017 and returned to me with the fingerboard off. I was not happy with the 2016 varnish, so it was stripped and revarnished. This is the darkest varnish tone I've ever done, and I've found it rather pleasant to look at. It looks much older, although without the chips and scratches normally associated with an antiqued instrument.
Please note the chinrest and tailpiece are custom made. Chinrest with clamps weighs 37 grams and tailpiece 9grams. Typical over the tailpiece chinrest weighs at least 60grams, and tailpiece about 13 grams.
FIVE STRING "Butternut"
STRAD DESIGN
STRAD DESIGN
STRAD DESIGN
Completed summer of 2019.
Based on Stradivari's "The Messiah" it is a standard length, but the middle and lower bouts are proportionately larger by about 4 and 8mm respectively.
PLAYABILITY
STRAD DESIGN
STRAD DESIGN
The neck at the nut is expanded slightly to allow comfortable play of the violin, with near standard spacing. Great response, even tone across the strings.
FINISH
STRAD DESIGN
FITTINGS
The finish is a carmel colored brown oil varnish of great clarity and highest quality, with some shading to give it just enough character to intimate that it does indeed have a soul.
FITTINGS
DIMENSIONS
FITTINGS
Currently fitted with a composite 5 string tailpiece with fine adjusters, and boxwood pegs.
DIMENSIONS
DIMENSIONS
DIMENSIONS
- 356mm back length
- Upper bout 167mm
- Middle bout 114mm
- Lower bout 214mm
- Ribs 31 to 33mm
- Neck width at nut 25.5mm
- Bridge is 45mm
SOUND
DIMENSIONS
DIMENSIONS
Sonorous, slightly deeper in timber, more like a small viola, than a standard Stradivari because of oversized lower bout. Excellence response and projection with evenness across all strings, even the lower C string. Bridge is marked for 4 string play, and in that setup, it is a remarkably strong and bold tone.