Old Clamps, New Clamps

Pretty much everymorning, Alberto talks about all the things he's going to get with our imaginary money...Hybrid Cars, an electric Scooter, an oven thing he saw once on a paid-programming commercial, etc. He usually convinces me with the things he needs to make violins. Recently, we used up all his birthday and Christmas money my grandmother had been saving for us over the years to buy a luxury item--New Clamps!

The old ones worked but the pressure was not concentrated on the violin itself and caused the glue to seep out everywhere, which meant Alberto had to do a lot of cleaning up of the instrument and repairing where cork clamps pulled at the wood.

The new clamps are fantastic--curved and colour coded to follow the shape of the violin, putting all the pressure exactly where it needs to go.