Photo Gallery of Our Business Trips

Oct 2010 - Visit to one of our partners’ factory in the Northern China

… where Johann Strings #55  are crafted

 

Woods are stored for 20 years before start the violin making process

Cut woods are properly tagged then stored further for a number of years

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Oct 2010 -   Visit to some violin studios in Shanghai China in search for fine handcrafted violins

Shanghai Art Museum’s clock tower
Text Box: Mu’en Tang Christian Church

Visit to Shanghai Wellsound Violins
Text Box: Wellsound’s President, Mr. Chen

Nov 2010 - Our violin restorer’s skill upgrading trip in Europe

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Gluing the crack on an antique violin’s front

Careful measurement is taken on the edge of violin for the saddle

Carving the violin scroll

Cutting the violin bridge

Shaping the ebony finger board

Cutting the feet of violin and cello bridges using knife, the traditional luthier’s method

In the last step of fixing a crack: gluing permanent studs on the sealed crack

(Left) Reshaped the neck of an old violin

(Right) Re-stained the neck with color matches the body

Final touch-up of varnish for the sealed crack

Watching ‘Messiah’ at the Southwell Minster in Southwell, Nottinghamshire

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