Gewa Chinrest Berber Boxwood

For a while I have been struggling to be comfortable playing. I have tried many chin rests and shoulder rests. My gut instinct has always been to not use a shoulder rest, I have always been in more pain with one but seeing as I could not find a comfortable set up and I was going against the tide of popular opinion I kept trying different combinations, spending money constantly. This chin rest has finally allowed me to put aside my shoulder rests and play freely with security and total comfort. It has been a game changer. The reason for marking it down is that the underside touches the tailpiece so I had to raise the underside with some cork. This is the second Berber I have bought, the other from a different source and that had the same issue even on a different violin. However, it wasn’t much work to add a thin layer of cork from an old wine bottle and it has been well worth it.