mini violin and cello
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I posted the violin a while ago, and I also recently got a cello. But I decided they were both a bit wrong, so I redid them Dr. Frankenstein style.

This was before their reconstructive surgery:

And this was after:

What I did to them:



Waiting for strings, tuning pegs and tailpiece.

Tuning pegs made from jewelry headpins. The stringing nearly did me in! I can't imagine making a model ship where one would have to do endless amounts of rigging with tiny tiny ropes.

Again, violin before:


Another after shot.

Cello before:

After:

Cello before:

After:

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This was before their reconstructive surgery:

And this was after:

What I did to them:

- Removed the necks - they were both too thick
- Removed the scrolls - they were both too big
- Reshaped the cello's neck and fingerboard to accept the violin's scroll
- Reshaped the back of the cello's neck - the curved part where it meets the body of the instrument - and adjusted the angle and painted it
- Removed the neck and scroll from an old organ donor violin I had in my doll house (center left) to be used on the new violin, and painted it
- Removed the varnish - they were both just too, too shiny! They looked new and a bit plasticky, and the way they reflected the light was just too chunky. They didn't look realistic, but looked like small fakes. They didn't look real.
- Applied new coatings of stain
- The violin body was much too thick, so I shaved out a section from the middle (center right)
- Made new bridges from card stock - the existing bridges were too thick and short
- Filled the square hole in the cello between the f-holes which had been the connecting point for the previous bridge
- Made new tuning pegs for the cello (to fit in what had been the violin's pegbox)
- Restrung them - the cello with thin jewelry wire and the violin with clear polyester filament
- Replaced the violin's tailpiece and anachronistic chinrest (thank you, Gunroom for that tip) with the tailpiece from the old violin
- The cello had an endpin that could be inserted (not pictured), but thanks to the Gunroom I learned that that was also anachronistic for my period, so I discarded it.


Waiting for strings, tuning pegs and tailpiece.

Tuning pegs made from jewelry headpins. The stringing nearly did me in! I can't imagine making a model ship where one would have to do endless amounts of rigging with tiny tiny ropes.

Again, violin before:


Another after shot.

Cello before:

After:

Cello before:

After:

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