{"id":162,"date":"2004-11-18T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-01-29T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T05:08:25","slug":"fiddle-case-completed-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Fiddle case completed at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; well it&#8217;s now finally finished! Just in time to go to the Majors Creek Folk Festival tomorrow and to China early next week &#8211; talk about cutting things fine! And here it is:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/case1.jpg' alt='DIY violin case' \/><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; so the bows run diagonally across the lid &#8211; like this:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/case3.jpg' alt='home made violin case' \/><\/p>\n<p>And the box compartment opens like this:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/case2.jpg' alt='DIY violin case' \/><\/p>\n<p>The trickiest part by far was the crushed velvet lining &#8211; and in the end I gave up and called for help from an expert &#8211; Sharon Boggon &#8211; 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! <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; ready for the next gig &#8211; on Saturday night (er&#8230; that&#8217;s tomorrow night!)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I also made a camping table with screw-in legs in ten-minutes &#8211; but more on that one later!<\/p>\n<p>time to get some sleep ready for a weekend of fun folk music and festival!<\/p>\n<p>cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; well it&#8217;s now finally finished! Just in time to go to the Majors Creek Folk Festival tomorrow and to China early next week &#8211; talk about cutting things fine! And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}