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Marios Pavlou

Newark School of Violin Making

RAB Special Award 2018

Scroll based on Stradivari
Nicolo Amati model scroll with neck graft

Although still in his second of three years at Newark, Marios impressed the trustees with the high quality of his work as well as his thoughtful, thorough attitude. So we decided to offer him this year’s Special Award of £1000 which he will spend on wood and fittings for the growing number of instruments he is making.

Ground coats on violin and viola
Trying to reproduce varnish of original
Matching the varnish of the back

RAB Award 2018: money to buy tools

Marios writes of his award:

First of all many thanks to the RAB Trust for this kind opportunity and the generosity to cover my tools expenses.

I asked for the Herdim assembly clamps for closing the box of a new violin or viola. They are so useful and easy to use. First of all they are made to a highly professional engineered design and with very good quality materials for high resistance AND  longer lifetime. The shape and material of the coloured heads is so cleverly made to give the pressure in the fluting of the plate and avoid damaging the edge. Colour helps for faster application and use. Blue ones are concave for the upper and low bouts and red/yellow are convex for the Cs bouts.

The pictures show the process of using them to close the box of my Del Gesu ‘Plowden’ copy.

 

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