Tristan planing the neck. If you don't, the strings will hit against all the imperfections and create a buzzing noise.
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The form finally finished, after twelve hours . Here it is with the neck attached. Of course that's just a mold, for the actual violin we're using 8 layers of paper mache.

Here's the finished body. Well more or less finished, we still need to put the two halves together and shave off the excess. As of this posting they're not dry.