Master's Secrets

Weekly live from home

Weekly Live from home is my weekly live streaming Q&A Since the lockdown started on March 11th I had the idea to go live on my youtube channel every Monday at 14:00 Italian time to answer ...

#AndràTuttoBeneFestival by Riccardo Pes

Customers are friends for the rest of our lives.The connections that we create with them will be relations we can always rely on. I met Riccardo Pes in 2013 for the 6rst time. At that time it ...

Q&A Live Streaming every Monday 14:00 European Time (Rome)

During these hard times you can get in touch live directly with me on my YouTube Channel „Edgar Russ Distinguished Violinmaker“. I am happy for all my customers who received their instruments ...

My Spirit Varnish Recipe

Spirit varnish is nothing else then varnish made with alcohol. There is a lot of secrecy around the perfect recipe, which is certainly very important, as long as you like it is the best.I woul...

How to store your Varnish

Today we will talk about the di0erence between Spirit and Oil varnish. As we said in this blog post, we have two di0erent types of varnish: Spirit Varnish evaporates with time. Just like you d...

What you need to cook Oil Varnish

Today we will be talking about the ingredients you need to prepare my oil varnish. In the last blog post we talked about the Oil, here you can read more about it. First of all the Amber: I usu...

Let’s meet in USA @ NAMM Show

Dear Friends, We will meet soon! The next event I will take part in will be in USA, California, from the 16th to the 19th of January. I have recently confirmed my participation at the NAMM Sh...

The Diamond Violin

Today I would like to invite you to hold on for a while and reflect on how your dream instrument could look like. Start today to draw your picture of your dream instrument decorated with preci...