I began this weekend planning to go fishing with my sister who was down from Independence MO and ended up spending most of my time indoors due to bad weather. It was 37 degrees with a 25 mile an hour wind….aint no way I am going out to go fishing. We did a few things but mostly stayed home during her stay.

I got the hankerin’ to work on my fiddle since I had some free time, so I did. I dont know if y’all remembered the last post with me working on the fiddle but it was not a good one. I had just accidentally broke the face plate in three pieces. You can see that post here.

Below is the progression of work I did on the fiddle. Once I got started it came together easier than I thought so I just kept going.

Sunday night I got the idea “since this fiddle doesn’t have purfling I ought to put a line around the fiddle to decorate it some” so I got the wood burning iron out and went to town. Then once I did that I got to thinking “this is a cheap fiddle I couldn’t hurt it if I put a picture on it” so I did. I looked through Missouri Conservation Magazines for a good picture and found a quail. I drew the quail on the fiddle and used the wood burner to etch it in. The only bad thing was I should have tilted it a little more due to the tail piece will cover the birds head. I think it will still look good.

I had to work on the neck because I bought a new ebony fingerboard for it and it was a bit out of size.

After I got done working on the fiddle I had so much excitement I had to go and play a fiddle unfortunately the one I was working on is still not finished (but almost!!) so I got out my other fiddle.

Thanks for looking. Please comment and let me know what you think.