I think, from my own experience, that someone there to help you will be a real plus whatever style they specialize in on violin. If you only had a classical teacher close I would use them. I would think a classical trained violin teacher that plays and loves old time would be awesome. I think this was all a big help in my playing.
But my bridge blanks hang under a room lamp and the slight heat from that tends to remove moisture. A nice piece of equipment that could be used as a very precise oven that would also have gas regulators is a gas chromatograph. You might be interested in this topic 🙂 I think it was a similar idea, though it was a while ago so can’t quite remember exactly what we discussed. Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. The aluminum foil idea is a slight modification of an old tool maker trick for heat hardening steel parts without the development of an oxidation crust.
You might even go to the length of putting down a layer of sawdust, then the bridge, then more sawdust to cover it. The gas is obviously used to shield Spinrush Casino the wood from oxygen. I am liking the saw dust idea (in vacuum deposition work, the saw dust would be called “the getter”). My thought on those would be to fill them with saw dust and any available oxygen will attack the dust because of its larger surface area. Continue slight flow of gas and return to oven heated to 380 F for 2 hours.
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