Cooper
Violins
Handmade violins, traditional methods, and the tools used to bring them to life.
Enter the workshop
Coming soon
Current build
The P Form
This internal form began as half-inch Baltic birch plywood. An outer laminate was planed from each face before curly maple veneer was applied, keeping the finished thickness close to 12 mm.
“I wanted the form to be as flashy as the violin.”
Workshop-made tools
Useful can be beautiful
These violin knives use a long, narrow handle inspired by tools from René Morel’s workshop. Figured maple gives each working tool some of the character found in the instruments themselves.
“A tool should work properly, but there’s no reason it can’t be beautiful too.”
CooperViolins.com
More is coming from the workshop.
A new violin is underway, with the complete build being documented from the first cuts through the finished instrument.