Technology for luthier making

The romanticism of making everything by hand takes away vital time from the construction of our instrument.

There's nothing romantic about making a completely straight, functional mold. It is what it is: a mold that will be used again and again, its purpose is to provide a bonding area for the blocks and a bonding area for the instrument's ribs. How much time did you spend tracing, sawing, drilling, cutting chamfers, and squaring with a file? It matters little if the mold looks good if it's crooked. The mold fulfills a function that goes beyond its aesthetics. Using a router to cut plywood or MDF molds guarantees a constant right angle throughout the entire silhouette.

A drawing template is the basis for tracing the silhouette on our wooden block intended to be an arm, a lid, a bottom, an F, etc. Hand drawing is a technique that, for the most skilled, is the most practical to solve at the moment, but did you do it wrong? You have to do it again, or do you want to print it, scale it, edit it, document it? You'll probably have to draw it repeatedly. Now imagine doing this on every template you need. Many sketches will end up crumpled in a dumpster. Computer drawing handles high precision, capable of tracing the finest details, editing them, and documenting them. Why not use this technology to our advantage?

Do you want to build a new instrument model? Are you short on time to complete it? I can help you. I have an extensive library of vectorized instrument models, ready to be cut with high-precision machinery.

Time is running out!