Fiddle case completed at last!
I mentioned a little while back that I was building a new fiddle case for the hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) and I showed you the frame… well it’s now finally finished! Just in time to go to the Majors Creek Folk Festival tomorrow and to China early next week – talk about cutting things fine! And here it is:
Anyhow the case is clad in aluminium and has a lined compartment for the fiddle and a huge box area for the effects pedal, spare strings, rosin and shoulder rest etc,. It is designed to have a short footprint – so the bows run diagonally across the lid – like this:
And the box compartment opens like this:
The trickiest part by far was the crushed velvet lining – and in the end I gave up and called for help from an expert – Sharon Boggon – who came up with the brilliant plan to cut a cardboard template and wrap the fabric around that and then glue it down. It looks great!
The finishing touches were to add a lid to the box compartment (complete with hinges), attach elastic across the lid corners for the bows, attach a strap (cut from the remnants of a $2 tie-down strap) to stop the lid from flying open and there it is – ready for the next gig – on Saturday night (er… that’s tomorrow night!)
Tonight I also made a camping table with screw-in legs in ten-minutes – but more on that one later!
time to get some sleep ready for a weekend of fun folk music and festival!
cheers
Jerry
