Pictures of your stringed instruments

It is indeed new. It’s a Gliga GEMS, and I just got it this year. Gliga is lefty-friendly, building left-handed versions of all their models.

I guess it’s fitting that a demonic left-handed violin would be built by Romanians out of Carpathian wood. I should install a gadget in the case that plays the sound effect of a coffin opening over a sinister chord.

Caj

Mine is a Rudolf Doetsch, I’m not sure exactly how old, but not very. My sister got it like three years ago, and it may have been used then, I don’t know. She then gave up playing and gave it to me. :slight_smile:

It is my own design. It’s for simple chording or melody. 3-strings
Walden told me that he saw something similar somewhere but this design came from what I had on hand in the shop and the desire to keep it simple.

It has a very light stain and the wood is as follows:
Back - Eastern Red Cedar (Juniper)
Top - Spanish Cedar
Sides - Poplar
Neck - Poplar
Bridge and Nut - Mahogany

It is fretless, the fret lines are burned using a thin tipped woodburner.

The newest addition to the stable! I finished this a week or so ago, just getting to post pictures now. This is an old violin from the 1900’s, and a baroque - modern transitional instrument. I left the origional (only about 6ish inches long!!) bass bar, and slightly shorter neck and fingerboard. I ‘pimped’ it out with rosewood fittings. The peg holes had the old tapre and spacing, so the pegs are quite large now, but are up to modern tapre. Plays really well, soft spoken and sweet. It is actually up for sale/trade for a set of UP’s.

these pictures got a little dark on me…