Can you make a homemade violin and how?

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2026-03-13 12:35

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Without machines, you can hand-make a violin. It takes a lot of skill, patience and practice - even some quality material is important to have.

You can watch the How it's Made: Violins video here: At Link

Seeing it with your own eyes will make it clear, hopefully.

Here are Stages in Violin Making by Hand by a professional violin maker in the traditional way (Derek Roberts)

  1. Select the wood, prepare and joint the plates
  2. Glue the blocks to the mould and shape them
  3. Prepare the ribs and bend to shape
  4. Complete the rib structure
  5. Make the linings and fix to the ribs
  6. Saw out and rough arch the back plates
  7. Saw out and rough arch the front plates, begin final arching
  8. Prepare, mark out and saw the neck block
  9. Carve the scroll
  10. Carve the pegbox and Flute the scroll
  11. Finish the outline
  12. Inlay the purfling
  13. Final arching
  14. Hollow out the back plate
  15. Hollow out the front plate and thickness the front and back
  16. Mark out the F holes
  17. Cut out the F holes
  18. Glue the back to the ribs
  19. Fit the bass bar to the front
  20. Close the box - remove the mould and glue the front on
  21. Shape the fingerboard and glue onto the neck block
  22. Set the neck into the body
  23. Finish the neck and back button
  24. Finish the edge and final scraping

That is for making a classical violin. It's a whole different thing for an electric violin.

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