Master's Secrets

Festival Bled – 2021

Let’s meet @Festival Bled, in Slovenia, from the 9th to the 11th of July! Discover and play my latest instruments! Contact me to fix an appointment, See you in Bled, Edgar

The best violinmaking tools

Hello hello! Today I will talk about my favorite tools.Every craftsman has a special relationship with his tools, and finding the right ones is a very important part of creating your workshop....

String Slots on the Bridge, a detail worth looking at!

Hello everybody, over the years I’ve done some videos about the bridge (you can have a look at them here and here), but recently I got an interesting question from a subscriber that asked my o...

Why the Thickness matters!

Hello! Today I collected some pieces of wood I am working on, where the next step is making the thicknesses. The question for today is “What happens if the thicknesses are not good? If the vio...

Wood preparation

Buongiorno a tutti, I am currently working on a top and getting ready to apply my wood preparation, which I always put both inside and outside. Historically speaking, around 1600, italian make...

Wolf Tones

Hello hello! Today we will talk about wolf tones, a problem that concerns a lot of musicians: viola, viola, cello and double bass players all have at least once in their life had to face this ...

How to choose the perfect wood

Ciao a tutti! Today we will talk about choosing the right wood for your instrument!I am full of pieces in my workshop, but most of them are actually stored outside Cremona, at my house. If I n...

Let’s meet @ the NAMM Virtual Show!

Dear Friends, We will meet soon! The first event of this brand new year starts with the annual NAMM Show. From the 18th to 22nd of January enjoy me and my instruments at my virtual booth....

The Upper Nut

Before focusing on details commonly known by most makers and musicians, I would like to catch your attention on an apparently insignificant part of the sound of your instrument: the upper nut. This...

The perfect String Height

The string height makes part of the sound adjustment since it interferes directly with the angle of the strings over the bridge. But besides this impact you as a musician have to keep up with the ...