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Cello Making: For Use with Violin Making, Step by Step

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In preparation for building a cello, I have successfully built a violin using Mr. Strobel's "Violin Making Step by Step". I have reasonalble amatuer woodworking skills and simple but adequate tools and space. I also reviewed all of the reasonably obtainable sources on violin constuction and found Mr. Strobel's books to be more helpful than most. The author recommends the first time builder of a cello to first build a viloin in his preface to "Cello Making" and I heartily agree. The price of the wood is much cheaper and techniques can be mastered on a smaller scale. The price of his book is about that of one cello lesson and it will last a lot longer.

My husband is the woodworker in our family; our daughter plays the cello and also is a public school string teacher. Last year she had a cello in bad need of repair but her school budget didn't have the money to repair it, so. . .she brought it home to Dad and they got it fixed. Unfortunately, they had to completely take it apart to fix the problems but didn't have all the supplies to put it back together. Fortunately she could afford to pay someone else to glue it back together. This sparked a seed in my husband to want to learn more about how to work on a cello and we finally found it in this book. NOT FOR BEGINNERS, it does have all the information you need to work on a cello but we recommend also getting the "Violin Making" book as the two work hand-in-hand.

The author describes the process of cello building clearly and quite precisely, and with a much appreciated sense of humor. He refers to his books on violin building, because the biggest difference is size and wood expense. I also purchased the violin books, and am glad I did, as there is valuable supplementary information therein.
The book is excellent and reasonably priced.