Doublestop Magazine

Violin Making, step-by-step

UK luthier Derek Roberts’s website features a wonderful series of articles, illustrated with plenty of photos, showing the steps taken when making a violin. He starts by selecting the wood, and end up with a violin “in the white” (ie, not varnished). I’m not sure if he’s done yet (I’d like to see the varnishing), but what is up there is a nice resource for anyone curious about the process. And if I lived near his shop, and, you know, had spare time, I’d sign up for one of his classes.