Looking for an enthusiastic student. We have one spot available!

On April 5th, we began operations in our luthier workshop located in Atizapán, Zaragoza. We've been working on a block of maple that, after much hard work, will become a functional violin neck.

Currently, two highly talented students are attending the program and are sure to continue to perform optimally. As I mentioned in the last post, I have three individual workbenches, ready to be a learning center.

The process of building a violin, when first learning luthier, is slow, requiring close attention, high precision, responsibility, and above all, patience. For this reason, students must possess manual skills that will allow them to continue in the course.

Approximately, to build an arm for the first time, it will take us approximately 135 hours, which cover 9 weeks of work, which will be divided into blocks of 3 weeks of work (45 hours), with 1 week in between for rest or making up classes.

The work plan will begin by making an arm template based on a Stradivari model, then tracing it onto a block of maple wood, which will be our working material. Before beginning the fun part of carving the curves of the scroll and the arm in general, it will need to be plane and squared perfectly.

We'll cut the silhouette on the band saw, and then we'll work with chisels and gouges, which will gradually sculpt the characteristic snail shape into the arm's volute. The tool is available here.

We continue with our hours from 8 to 11 am, Monday through Friday.

The fee for a 45-hour block is $2,900 Mexican pesos, which must be paid in full before the course begins.

The next block begins on May 31st . Registration is open.