A violin crash course: J. Luke Heaton of Whittlesticks walks through disassembling a roughly 100-year-old violin from the bench — why the top comes off (and not the back), reading runout in a carved plate, the seam knives and pallet knives he reaches for, neck-reset projection specs, specialized crack-repair clamps, the heat-gun method for pulling a fingerboard, and his push-pin indexing trick for gluing a new one on.
Aired on Looth Group Live, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026.
