Construction

   First Class manufacture 

 

          Top quality soundboard wood from Swiss - click here

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 Slides and gides

  -  made from lime and leather

 

 Jacks

  -  Pear tree and with holly tongues

  -  Delrin quill or bird feathers

 

 Keyboards

  -  Frame made in lime and oak or totally oak

  -  Keylevers lime

  -  Ebony key slips - sharps with bone slips

  -  Boxwood arcades or castello or palm or pear or alisier or sycamore

 

 Soundboard

  - Self made boards with top quality quarter epicea

    (abies alba or picea abies: depending on the type of instrument )

  - The soundboards are glued in the case with hot glue 

   

 Wrest plank

  - Oak or beech

  - Veneer 3 mm spruce

 

 Bondings

  - Hot glue - hide glue

 

 Bentside

  - Steambending (not laminated)

 

 Woods

   The following woods are used to achieve historical copies of authentic instruments:

 

  - Lime

  - Poplar

  - Maple

  - Sycamore

  - Spruce

  - Pine

  - Yellow Pine

  - Oak

  - Beech

  - Walnut

  - Pear tree

  - Boxwood

  - Holly

  - Cherry

  - Ebony

  - Castello