luthier

The neck is straight enough to be very playable.) But I have a job and a family and I'm not luthier material.

It can take a luthier who knows what they're doing a couple of hours: certainly beyond my woodworking skills.

Those square/flat pyramid pieces of wood are cleats, which were added by a luthier to repair and secure cracks.

Similarly, my dad was a luthier for 15 years before passing away to cancer in 2022.

A handmade violin is always going to sound better than one machinemade because the luthier is able to treat the wood specifcally to showcase the tone of the wood used.

Is the claim that if an expert modern luthier reproduces a stradivarius he can get it so close as to measure identically?

There are luthier communities which get supported by toolmakers and professionals, and so on.

In particular, I have a unique banjo made by a local luthier (Bob Shue) specifically for my step-father.

I've accepted I'll never make as much money as I used to (obviously not even close being a luthier).

A competent luthier uses dimension only as a guide to rough the shape; final shaping of the back and deck are done by ear.

If you want to be a luthier, go work at a luthiers.

Have you thought about reaching out to the Luthier guild?

I see game designer, guitar luthier, and something called "coffee evangelist" but no janitors.

It produced random passwords like "luthier-beige-6139" or "unintimated-clamp-3529".

The violinist playing is Manoug Parikian, who presumably knew which instrument was which, and neither Isaac Stern nor Pinchas Zukerman (both world class soloists) nor Charles Beare (a famous luthier described as "the most esteemed authenticator in the world" by the NYTimes) could identify which violin was which.

Check Maestronet (Luthier section, ie, Peg Box) for insightful comments and suggestions.