Making a Cello

In winter of 2010, I began making a cello for a new client who had commissioned a slightly smaller, easily-played Rogeri model.    At the outset, I decided to document as much of the making of the instrument as was feasible in the course of a normal daily routine.  I hope the sequence of photographs and commentary provides a window into the sometimes mundane, sometimes refined labor that goes in to crafting a new stringed instrument.  While these photographs depict a cello being made, the process is very similar for violin and viola.