Callier-Scollard Violins
Craig Scollard

50 E. Green St. Suite 142
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626) 795-2870

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1. Fingerboard Shortening
( General » Repairs )
They wanted the fingerboard short like a baroque style. Have the customer mark exactly how long they want the fingerboard. Then tape a flexiable piece of plastic onto the fingerboard. Using the ...
... of mm that I wanted, so I decided to take the magnets off. Taking the magnet off the cleat caused the magnet under the cello to fall. You would think it would have fallen straight down and hit one of the ...
... I decided to pin the back to the block. Usually I see pins like this through the center seam and they are a little large. I wanted to use small pins. Ugh, they also lost the button so I made a quick one. ...
... and it's done. Since this was the first time I attempted this, the patch shifted to the center of the cello more than I wanted and I wasn't able to pull it closer to the ff hole. I didn''t take into ...
... Info. I recentally had a customer bring in a 5 string little better grade of this type of instrument. He wanted to swap out the original pickup with a baggs pickup. At first we were going to just bypass ...
... that type of repair. Here is a bow where the break took some of the stick. They wanted it repaired, so I was just planning on glueing it and told them to hope for the best. After thinking about it, I ...
7. Bass Frog
( General » Repairs )
Here is a well used bass frog. At first I was going to ask the customer if they wanted a new slide because I thought the perl had broken out. After closer insection, you can see that decades of playing ...
... Other shops wanted to do a neck graft. Here are the steps I used for my method.   Oops, I can't find the before photo, but this broken bass scroll shows how this cello scroll was broken. ...
... work. So I gave that a try. Knowing how Coke reacts to metal, I wanted to test it ever day. After about 4 days it moved about 1/16", then the next day about 1/8". After about 1 1/2 weeks I was able to ...
...    This is a chinrest that I made in 1985 out of Padauk.         The customer wanted a taller chinrest, so I adapted the one he had. ...
...        A violin bow with a long break that was missing some wood near the silver wrapping. I wrapped it a little longer than normal because I wanted ...
... on one end and a straight slot on the peg head side.   These are some old style cello friction pegs. She wanted the pegs to look the same, so I searched through all my old pegs ...
... customer.   . I have repaired around a hundred bow breaks without it breaking again. A customer came in and wanted to know if their bow could be repaired. I looked at it and ...
...  A customer brought in a cello where the "D" peg was solidly glued together. It would not turn. I managed to get it out of the peg box. Since she wanted the pegs to match, I looked around and found that ...
...  Before shot from text goes here.   Although this is a really cheap student violin, they wanted it repaired and even so I still try to do ...
16. Violin Revarnish
( General » Information )
Recently a customer brought in a violin that had been partially stripped of it's varnish. He wanted a golden yellow light brown varnish. Here are the before and after shots.  ...
... screws.       Repairing a Super Cheap Cello Even though this cello was inexpensive, I still wanted to repair it properly. ...
18. Bass Rib Repair
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... bass it wasn't really cost effective to remove the top to just fix this hole in the rib. I wanted to fix this from the outside so here are some shots of several of the major steps involved. (1) The first ...
... the instrument. After paying the next months rent of 12 (including tax), you would owe a balance of $ 100.00 (plus tax), if you wanted to purchase the instrument. After the following month, the balance ...
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