TOOLS & DESIGNS BY ANTONIO STRADIVARI (brought from the Stradivari Museum, Cremona)
detail of mould showing the knife cuts from mortising the linings into the blocks
drill, purflng marker, thumbplane
thickness calipers
working designs for decorated instruments
working designs for inlays in the ribs of decorated instruments
cello corner template
ff hole placement cello template
violin mould
cello scroll template
decorated scroll designs
steel scrapers
steel scrapers
brass thumbplane (body about 5cm long)
brass thumbplane
STRADIVARI: DETAILS OF SOME OF THE INSTRUMENTS ON SHOW
ALARD STRADIVARI
BASS OF SPAIN
CRISTIANI CELLO
LE MESSIE
ALARD
LE MESSIE
LE MESSIE
WORKSHOP
workshop impression, designed by Clare Flynn and realised by Paul Evett from the Ashmolean team, and filled up with stuff from Oxford Violins!
Bruno Guastalla 