lute

7 course renaissance lute based on Hieber

60cm string length, gut strings, spruce sound board, Indian rosewood and European maple back, Australian blackwood neck and pegbox.

liuto attiorbato

left and right images: Australian blackwood (heart and sap wood) back and neck, spruce soundboard
middle image: Macassar ebony and European maple back

13 course lute

lute rose: cutting and finished, lute back: gluing the end clasp

Bernie (2006-2018) smoking the bone,
helping prepare a lute nut.