Setting the neck into the Redwood Violin

A fairly detailed video on the process of fitting a neck to a violin .

This is part of The Redwood Violin Project, designed to paint a picture of Sonoma County, California, as told through the story of making a violin, as far as possible, from locally sourced materials. I will be positing videos about collecting the materials, the people I meet, and about the process of making a violin, including things like making my own glue and varnish from scratch.
Materials for the violin are selected both for being workable substitutes for traditional materials, and with consideration for their significance to Sonoma County's history and economy.

More information about the project:
I am a violin maker with 30 years experience.

[josephovermyer]

Andy is a real master. He has both intellectual knowledge and deep experience. Great maker

[philochristos]

This is the next step I have to take in my violin, and it's my first one, so I'm very nervous an intimidated about it. There are so many ways it can go wrong!

[hunterblakely]

Thank you for your diagrams and explanations.

[bremms]

Did you make the plates a bit thicker since the redwood is so soft?

[Jeff]

What height - aside from 27mm fingerboard intercept- have you used on the target bridge blank template curves please?

[rubensmarianobrasil]

Boa tarde Maestro qual o preço dessa kit de madeira pra violino Parabéns pelo trabalho maravilhoso

[alext]

It's interesting to me why there are no guitars that use the system used by violins. The bridge with the strings bearing down on it and the sound post and bass bar. The trapeze tailpiece is the closest I've seen and it has no sound post or bass bar, to my knowledge.
The violin is so incomprehensibly loud for its size, I would think that guitar builders would have caught onto the engineering before electrical amplification was started.